07/10/2026
Pacific leaders are calling for an immediate end to new oil, gas and coal extraction, and the phase-out of existing production and the end of fossil fuel subsidies. For Pacific peoples to be recognised as defenders of the ocean and land they have stewarded for generations. And insist that loss and damage will not be monetised, because culture and grief are not line items.
Referring to the pre-COP, Jacynta Fa’amau of 350 Pacific stated “We will likely breach 1.5 degrees in the next decade. How long we stay above it is still a choice, and it is being made by the people in these rooms.”
"At the pre-COP31 summit in Nadi, Fiji, Pacific advocates have told the world what a credible climate outcome looks like. Australia is currently part of the problem and needs to be part of the answer" writes Louise Morris, Head of Fossil Fuel Transition at the Australia Institute.
"The Pacific is asking for no false solutions, meaning no expensive never-never technologies or financial mechanisms like dodgy offsets that let extraction continue while the harms are handed off to the people and planet."
Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/261007-pacific-red-lines-are-a-test-of-australias-climate-integrity
