Government joins forces to boost Pacific climate action
Aotearoa New Zealand will boost and accelerate climate action across the Pacific, through a significant new partnership with the Pacific Community supporting its Climate Change Flagship programme.
The NZ$30 million partnership announcement was made in Tonga, at a coastal replanting project being delivered by the Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications (MEIDECC), in an area hit hard by the tsunami following the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption, in January 2022.
The partnership includes:
- A Climate Change Flagship that will accelerate an evidence-based approach to climate action.
- A focus on reducing emissions and scaling-up specialist support to help communities secure their water supply for example.
- Enhancing the evidence base for policy, advocacy and leadership informed by climate science.