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Safeguarding Pacific Island seas starts with indigenous knowledge

Some months ago, I was part of a special ocean and culture story-telling workshop on my home island of Erromango, in southern Vanuatu. There, I listened to traditional elders recount ancient sea wisdom and oral histories about ocean connections with other islands, passed down through generations

By Anna Naupa

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The right climate for Indonesia-United States cooperation

Indonesia is feeling a little ignored. The recent visit by US Vice President Kamal Harris to Vietnam and Singapore led to speculation that Indonesia was not a priority for the Biden administration. “Snubbed again, Joe?” read one local headline. A few weeks beforehand, US Defence Secretary Lloyd

By Eko NM Saputro

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Australia’s potential as a “green” hydrogen superpower

In the lead-up to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in November, the world is looking for nations to step up in the clean energy sector. Australia, with its plentiful resources, economic capacity and established trade connectivity is perfectly poised to become a leader in that step-up –

By James Bowen

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Lowy Institute Conversations: Jeffrey Sachs on global cooperation and sustainable development in the time of COVID-19

In this episode of Conversations, Alexandre Dayant talks with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs about global cooperation in the time of COVID-19, vaccine distribution and Australia’s responsibility in the face of climate change

By Alexandre Dayant

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Preparing Australia to respond to disasters – at home and abroad

The Covid pandemic relentlessly rolls on but prescribed burns have now also begun across Australia as the next bushfire season rapidly approaches. Such actions highlight that compounding, overlapping disasters are the new normal and now need to be planned for. Indeed, last year’s Bushfire Royal

By Peter Layton

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Bad news for Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

The release of recent research from the Netherlands adds an additional insight into what is happening in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the country’s all-important food producing region that contributes some fifty per cent to its agricultural GDP. In a stark conclusion the research cites 2050 as the

By Milton Osborne

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Finding a new approach to water security in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian governments are aware of the intersecting challenges of water security and disaster governance. The importance member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations place on this dual imperative is reflected in the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead

By Angelo Paolo L. Trias

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Paying the price: Australians want action on climate change

With US President Joe Biden putting climate change at the centre of US foreign policy, Australia is facing increasing pressure from its closest ally to do more. John Kerry, the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, has said the Australian government is not on the “same page” as the rest of the

By Hannah Léser

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South Korea’s green goals

Last year, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in launched a climate-change policy branded as a “Green New Deal” as part of a wider stimulus package for the country’s pandemic-afflicted economy. This sat alongside a commitment to achieve a net-zero carbon emissions target by the year 2050

By Kate Kalinova

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Lessons from the recent cyclone in Timor-Leste

The cyclone which hit Timor-Leste on 4 April was traumatising. We were awakened at 3 am by heavy rain and winds gusting at more than 125km/hour. Water began to flood into our house, and 15 minutes later we had to escape by swimming. The water reached almost two metres. Throughout, I had to keep

By Fidelis Magalhães

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The Davis aerodrome and Australia’s leadership in the Antarctic

Since the Davis aerodrome project in Antarctica was proposed in 2018 by the Australian government, there have been continuing debates about the potential environmental costs, as well as its geopolitical implications, in light of Australia’s sovereign claims to 42% of the frozen continent and

By Paul Govind, Nengye Liu

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Environment

Safeguarding Pacific Island seas starts with indigenous knowledge

The right climate for Indonesia-United States cooperation

Australia’s potential as a “green” hydrogen superpower

Lowy Institute Conversations: Jeffrey Sachs on global cooperation and sustainable development in the time of COVID-19

Preparing Australia to respond to disasters – at home and abroad

Bad news for Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Finding a new approach to water security in Southeast Asia

Paying the price: Australians want action on climate change

South Korea’s green goals

Lessons from the recent cyclone in Timor-Leste

The Davis aerodrome and Australia’s leadership in the Antarctic

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