Pacific Islands Climate Action Network - PICAN

08/10/2026

“If the Pacific falls, there is no line behind us. Not for us. Not for you.”

Read Pacific Civil Society’s Climate Justice Demands at pican.org/pacific-demands

07/10/2026

We won’t be remembered for what the world allowed to disappear.

Read Pacific Civil Society’s 5 Red Lines for 1.5C.

LINK IN BIO or visit pican.org/pacific-demands

07/10/2026

| 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 ‘𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬’ 𝐢𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬

PACIFIC leaders must reject a climate process that keeps dates but delivers no protection, Pacific Islands Climate Action Network regional director Dr Rufino Varea said, warning that if the Pacific falls, “there is no line behind us.”

Speaking at the Sofitel in Nadi, Varea urged delegates to listen to Pacific communities and their knowledge of the ocean, describing a traditional calendar tied to the annual rise of the balolo sea worm (Eunice viridis) as “Pacific science, held by Pacific people.”

“Your phone says the month is October,” he said. “Here, this month has another name.”

He described Vula-i-Balolo Lailai as the month when the small balolo rises from the reef in the dark before dawn, drawing fish to feed and spawn.

Varea said the event also signals households to stop eating reef fish, which “can become poisonous in the warm months,” and to prepare for heat and cyclone season.
“Our people have kept this calendar for generations. It has never failed us,” he said.

He contrasted that seasonal knowledge with the climate process, which he described as a cycle of pledges, deadlines and scientific assessments that must produce results.
“A calendar exists to bring a harvest,” Varea said. “A calendar that keeps dates and brings no harvest is not a calendar. It’s a schedule.”

Varea said the system was under threat from disputes over climate science, rivalry among larger powers and an economy that “still counts property for people and for the living world.”
He said the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution were arriving together.

“Overshoot is known only as a
harm to us,” he said. “You are telling us we are expendable. We are your sacrifice zone. We reject this.”

Varea cited Pacific-led calls for action, including the United Voice, the Kioa Declaration, the Port Miller Call for a fossil fuel-free Pacific and the Funafuti Call for Climate Justice. He urged delegates to “hear the call of our people.”

“We are called small island states. We are large ocean states,” he said, adding that the ocean regulates the climate of the whole world.

“If the Pacific falls, there is no line behind us,” Varea said.



🖋️: 𝑽𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒌𝒐𝒓𝒐 / 𝑰𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝑩𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔
📸: PICAN

04/10/2026

The Pacific has drawn the line and now we hold it 🌺

Ahead of PreCOP31, we came together with 350 Pacific, Sigavou Studios, artists, activists and members of our network in Nadi to bring the Pacific’s five red lines for 1.5°C to life.

These red lines carry the priorities and lived realities of Pacific civil society into the conversations that will help shape the road to COP31.

From Nadi to Türkiye, we’re making sure Pacific voices remain at the heart of the process as we navigate a unique COP presidency arrangement spanning our region and beyond.

Read the Pacific Climate Justice Demands at www.pican.org/pacific-demands

04/10/2026

02/10/2026

The Pacific’s climate future cannot be negotiated without the generations who will inherit it.

This week in Nadi, young people from across the Pacific and Australia are joined by young climate leaders from Türkiye, Brazil and Ethiopia for the Australia - Pacific Youth Climate Dialogue (APYCD).

PICAN is proud to be co-organise the Dialogue alongside our partners UNICEF Pacific, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and the Pacific Youth Council, as well as providing technical support on the climate justice, policy and negotiation issues young people will be navigating throughout the week.

Together, they’re sharing experiences and solutions from their communities, building their knowledge and advocacy, and shaping priorities to carry forward into Pre-COP31, COP31 and beyond.

For us, meaningful youth participation means more than being invited into the room. It means having the space, knowledge and pathways to help shape the decisions that will determine the future of our islands, our ocean and our people.

Over the coming days, we’ll be sharing more from the young people leading these conversations and the priorities they want the world to hear.

01/10/2026

Stronger Pacific climate action is built together.

This week, PICAN and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme - SPREP strengthened a relationship built over many years with the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding.

From supporting Pacific delegates and negotiators through the UNFCCC to working across regional climate processes, our organisations have long shared spaces and priorities. This MOU creates a stronger foundation to continue that work and deepen the connection between Pacific civil society and our regional institutions.

As we head into Pre-COP31 and COP31, bringing the knowledge, experience, leadership and priorities of Pacific communities closer to the spaces where decisions are made matters more than ever.

30/09/2026

At , PICAN is bringing the conversation back to where resources, knowledge and decision-making sit.

Join us for Weave Together: Pacific Owned Solutions, where we’ll unpack two Pacific-owned approaches putting climate justice into practice - the PICAN Climate Justice Fund, designed to get finance directly to frontline communities, and the PICAN Knowledge Hub, built to keep Pacific knowledge, evidence and learning in Pacific hands.

📅 Monday, 5 October
⏰ 2:00–2:45pm FJT
📍 Greenzone, Ballroom 1, Sofitel Fiji Resort & Spa

Registration is required to attend and spaces are limited.

🔗 Register here: https://greenzone-precop31.com/event/weave-together-pacific-owned-solutions

29/09/2026

Join PISFCC at PreCOP31 for ‘Operationalising the ICJ Advisory Opinion: What’s Next for the Pacific?’

🗓️ Date: 6 October, 2026 at 11:45 AM to 12:30 PM FJT
📍 Venue: Convention Centre 2, Crowne Plaza Fiji, Nadi
👥 Event is by registration only — scan the QR Code or Register at https://bit.ly/4juZ6e9

We hope to see you at our side event 🌺



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02/09/2026

Crossing 1.5°C does not make 1.5°C irrelevant. It makes action even more urgent.

UNEP’s new Overshoot Report is a sobering warning, but it is not a licence for weaker ambition.

Every fraction of warming prevented matters. Every year we shorten overshoot matters.

Read PICAN’s full response. 👇

PICAN responds to UNEP’s 1.5°C overshoot report, warning that every fraction of warming matters and calling for urgent emissions cuts and climate finance.