Australia will fund a $500m climate change package for the Pacific, PM to announce

Scott Morrison will unveil a $500m climate change and oceans funding package for the Pacific region when he attends the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tuvalu this week.

Claire Anterea, co-founder of the Kiribati
Climate Action Network, says the situation
in the Pacific is ‘not about cash’.

The funding package, which will use existing aid funds to help Pacific nations invest in renewable energy and climate and disaster resilience, will build on the $300m given by the government for that purpose in 2016-2020.

“The Pacific is our home, which we share as a family of nations. We’re here to work with our Pacific partners to confront the potential challenges they face in the years ahead,” said the prime minister.

Read the story from The Guardian by Kate Lyons - “Australia will fund a $500m climate change package for the Pacific, PM to announce.”

(Rather than handing such a massive amount of money to the Pacific island nations, Scott Morrison should be attending to what is actually happening in Australia and help his fellows change their behaviours; behaviours that puts them among the worst offenders in the world with regard per capita carbon dioxide emissions. Also, we should be spending richly to enable Australia to break the vice-like grip in which it is held by the fossil fuel industry - Robert McLean)