Program
5 – 8 October 2026 · Sofitel and Crowne Plaza, Nadi, Fiji
Sofitel Fiji Resort & Spa Crowne Plaza Fiji Nadi Bay
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134 sessions found.
Mon 5
Oct
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9:00 AM –12:00 PM
Opening Session
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1:00 PM –1:45 PM
1.5°C to Stay Alive: Aligning finance, justice and community voices to keep 1.5°C in reach
COP Universities Alliance
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1:00 PM –1:45 PM
All rise! How the International Court of Justice ruling on climate change can deliver better health and save lives around the world
Wellcome
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1:00 PM –1:45 PM
Launch of the Fiji Carbon Market Plan 2026–2030
MECC
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1:00 PM –1:45 PM
Powering the Pacific: Electrification for Climate, Resilience and Development
DCCEEW and DFAT
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1:00 PM –1:45 PM
Public transport and COP31: mode shift's climate moment?
Public Transport Association Australia & New Zealand
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2:00 PM –2:45 PM
Advancing Just Transitions in SIDS
MECC
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2:00 PM –2:45 PM
Birthright! A global call to action to protect pregnant women from global heating
Wellcome
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2:00 PM –2:45 PM
Connecting the Nexus: Climate, Food Systems, Diets, Wellbeing and Non-Communicable Diseases in Pacific and Indigenous Communities
The University of Melbourne
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2:00 PM –2:45 PM
Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) for Climate-Resilient Pacific
Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources - Fiji
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2:00 PM –2:45 PM
Pacific Climate Mobility: Literacy as Justice
Beyond Climate Collaborative
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2:00 PM –2:45 PM
Reimagining Disability-Inclusive Climate Action
United Nations Global Disability Fund (GDF) and Pacific Disability Forum (PDF)
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2:00 PM –2:45 PM
The Climate Infrastructure for Resilient Coastlines and Riverbanks CIRCAR: Nature Based Solutions for resilient Pacific
Live & Learn Environment Education / Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) – Australia / AIFFP
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2:00 PM –2:45 PM
Weave Together: Pacific Owned Solutions
Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN)
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3:15 PM –4:00 PM
Bridging gaps between Loss and Damage policy and implementation
Nabanga Loss & Damage consortium in partnership with the Santiago Network
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3:15 PM –4:00 PM
Building Pacific Resilience through integrated Climate Finance
The University of the South Pacific (USP)
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3:15 PM –4:00 PM
Oceania United: Our Common Agenda for COP31
Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN), Climate Action Network (CAN) Australia & Climate Action Network (CAN) Aotearoa
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3:15 PM –4:00 PM
Pacific Ocean Leadership: Science, Innovation & Investment
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - Australia (DCCEEW)
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3:15 PM –4:00 PM
Progressing the ICJ Decision – Melanesian Perspectives
Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat
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3:15 PM –4:00 PM
Workers and Governments United for Just Transition
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and PICTU Fiji
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
A Regional Approach to Scaling Adaptation Finance for the Blue Pacific
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4:30 PM –5:30 PM
Amplifying Voices of Relocation
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Suva
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Climate and Communities: Building a Resilient Future in the Torres Strait
Gur A Baradharaw Kod Torres Strait Sea and Land Council (GBK)
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Expanding Access to Private Finance for SIDS and LDCs
Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G)
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
From Planning to Investment: Pacific 1.5 Pathways
Pacific Community (SPC)
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Ol saeklon i takem
Red Cross - Fiji, Vanuatu and Tuvalu
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Reforming to Finance our Own Resilience
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS), Government of Solomon Islands, Government of Tonga
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Shifting the Pawa: A community-led approach to a 100% Renewable Blue Pacific
350.org Pacific and Pacific Climate Warriors
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Tue 6
Oct
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Access to Finance: MDB and climate fund reforms that deliver
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - (DFAT) – Australia and Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - Australia (DCCEEW)
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Climate Finance That Leaves No One Behind!
Reserve Bank of Fiji
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Is the current climate finance architecture fit for purpose? Looking into the role of Farmer Organisations as Climate Finance Intermediaries
Pacific Farmer Organisations
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Pacific-led Science, Data and Youth for Climate Action
The University of the South Pacific (USP)
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
The Next Wave: A Young People's Agenda for COP31
Organizers of the Australia Pacific Youth Climate Dialogue (UNICEF, PISFCC, PICAN, PYC)
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
The Tide Remembers: Pacific Stories of Loss, Damage and Gender Justice
Plan Pacific, Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN), SICAN & KiriCAN
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Unlocking Indigenous-Led Clean Energy Finance
Mirabou Energy Remote Power Systems
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
1.5 Needs Family Farming. Can Finance Keep Up?
World Rural Forum
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Financing the Blue Pacific – an Indigenous Leadership, Customary Ocean Governance and Community Pathways for Conservation Finance
Conservation International in partnership with UK-FCDO
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Keeping 1.5°C Alive: Defending science and accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels
Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN), Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC)
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Pacific Leadership for Children: Turning Promises into Progress
UNICEF Pacific in partnership with YOUNGO
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Papua New Guinea's National Climate Finance Strategy: An update and lessons learned throughout the process
Monash University, Climate Change and Development Authority - Papua New Guinea, & Expertise France EU-FCCB Programme
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Reaching the Last Mile: The Pacific Resilience Facility in Action
Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF)
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
The role of national human rights institutions in addressing climate change
The Australian Human Rights Commission and the Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
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10:15 AM –11:45 AM
Yarning for Resilient: Amplifying solutions for Non-Economic Loss and Damage in Oceania (YES-NELD)
The University of Melbourne
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Blue Pacific Ocean Finance: Scaling Success
Ocean Risk Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) & Global Island Partnership (GLISPA)
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Breakthrough Stories from the Next Generation of Food and Agriculture leaders
COP31 Presidency Youth Climate Champion and the Pacific Climate Envoy for Finance
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
From vulnerability to resilience: A SIDS minilateral on debt pause clauses, debt swaps and resilient sovereign finance
Bridgetown Initiative
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Operationalising the ICJ Advisory Opinion: What’s Next for the Pacific?
Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Sea-Level Rise Science for Pacific Planning
Blue Earth Systems
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Vulnerable to Investable: Reimagining Finance for Pacific
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Belonging Beyond Rising Seas: Safeguarding Nationality, Preventing Statelessness
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Building Resilience While Achieving Development Objectives – pathways for the Pacific
World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) – Australia / DCCEEW
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Climate Risk Finance and Insurance for MSMEs
Ministry of Industries, Commerce and Business Development - Fiji
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Financing for Resilient Pacific Communities
World Health Organisation (WHO) (co-organized with Governments of Tonga & Vanuatu, UNDP, UNDRR, UNFPA, UNICEF and WFP)
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Indigenous Peoples Leading Climate Knowledge Pathways: Strengthening Pacific and First Nations Collaboration for COP31 and Beyond
Climate Systems Hub - Indigenous Partnerships Team
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Investing in Natural Capital: The Pacific Opportunity
Pacific Action for Climate Transitions
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
NbS for climate adaptation: actions, voices, lessons
Kiwa Initiative Secretariat
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Pacific Climate Agriculture and Food Solutions: From Talanoa to Action
Ministry of Agriculture Waterway & Sugar (Fiji), CSIRO (Australia) and SPC (Fiji).
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Banking on the Transition: Transforming Financial Systems for Green Economies and the Case for Green Lending
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Swedish International Developed Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and French Development Agency (AFD)
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Financing Climate Action for the Ocean: SIDS-led Pathways to Scale Investment and Resilience
Government of United Kingdom (UK)
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Holding the Line: First Nations and Pacific Climate
Common Threads
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Pacific Voices Shaping Global Climate Science
Pacific Climate Change Centre (SPREP), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Pacific Wisdom for the Global Ethical Stocktake
Pacific Elders’ Voice / Center for Earth Ethics; Brazil Ministry of Environment and Climate Change
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Party and Stakeholder Briefing on Electrification
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Data-driven NDC Implementation in Pacific Nations
The Asia LEDS Partnership (ALP), hosted by ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia (ICLEI South Asia)
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Indigenous Climate Knowledge Exchange: Shared Challenges, Knowledge and Solutions
Monash University, First Nations Clean Energy and Advisory Committee
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Innovative Finance for Pacific Climate Action
Pacific Community (SPC)
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Investor Rights as a Barrier to Climate Action
Pacific Network on Globalisation
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
National platforms: What’s the reality behind the hype?
LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation & Resilience & Climate & Development Ministerial
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Wed 7
Oct
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Achieving the Action Agenda at COP31: How empowering SIDS leadership will be a win for the world
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Does Global Climate Science Serve Oceania Cities and Towns?
Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne co-hosts Global Covenant of Mayors & United Nations Habitat
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
From Advisory to Action: Making the ICJ Advisory Opinion Count
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New Zealand and University of Fiji
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Right money, right time - Fixing the timing gap in Pacific climate finance
Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC)
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Threads of Witness: A Pacific Climate Justice Talanoa
Caritas Oceania
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Tuvalu’s model for financial resilience
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development - Tuvalu
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Financing Climate Justice: Establishing Sustainable Development Trust Funds for Riverine Communities Affected by Resource Development in the Pacific
PNG Rural Care Foundation INC
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
From Suva Climate Declaration to Paris to PEV: Leadership in Climate Action
Pacific Elders' Voice (PEV)
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Living Seawalls & Shorelines for Climate Resilience
WWF-Australia and WWF-Fiji / Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) – Australia /AIFFP
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Multilevel Partnerships for Climate Resilience in the Pacific
Pacific Civic Exchange and University of California-Berkeley
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Never-Before Voices: Pacific Grassroots Climate Leadership at Pre-COP 31
Fiji Council of Social Services
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Pacific Regional Dialogue on Energy Transition Investments and Finance
IRENA, SPC and Ministry of Public Works, Meteorological Services and Transport - Fiji
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Weaving Gender & Health in Pacific Climate Action
UNFPA co-organized with Governments of Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, UN Agencies (UN WOMEN, WHO, UNICEF and UNFCCC), Pacific Community (SPC), DIVA for Equality and Pacific Disability Forum
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Climate Resilient Infrastructure in the Pacific
Austrade
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
From local innovation to systemic resilience: Fit-for-purpose climate finance in the Pacific
Pacific Community (SPC)
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Hawaiian Dances of Voyaging, Climate Change and Pacific Celebration
Kamehameha Schools/ʻAha Moananuiākea Pacific Consortium
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
One Ocean: COP31 Meets the High Seas Treaty
High Seas Alliance
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Pacific Voices to Global Action: Resilience Solutions
Ministry of the Environment of Japan, with the Govs of Fiji, Palau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and CCAC
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Side Event: Launch of Tonga’s NDC 3.0
Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) & UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
1.5°C to Thrive: The health gains of keeping 1.5°C within reach
University of Auckland (supported by WHO, The Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome)
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
A Decade of Pacific NDC Action and Partnership
Pacific Community (SPC)
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Climate Finance for Local Flood Adaptation: Solutions for the Nadi Catchment
Abt Associates Inc (Fiji Program Support Platform)
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Pacific Loss and Damage: Evidence to Action
United Nations (UNDRR), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and Governments of Vanuatu and Fiji
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Space has the Answers
Australian Space Agency
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1:45 PM –2:30 PM
Urgent Climate Action: Nationalising the Belém Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2026-2034.
DIVA for Equality, Women & Gender Constituency to the UNFCCC
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
A Pacific-Led Transition for Island Shipping
Centre for Sustainable Development Reform, University of New South Wales
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3:00 PM –5:00 PM
Amplifying Pacific Voices through Storytelling
The University of the South Pacific, School of Law and Social Sciences
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Blue Pacific Leadership: Advancing Ocean–Climate Action Toward COP31
Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner - Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Funding Communities the Last Mile: The Pacific Resilience Facility in Action
Embassy of Ireland
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Nature at the Heart of Pacific Climate Action
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Navigating the Pacific Energy Transition
Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA)
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3:00 PM –3:45 PM
Powering the Pacific - A Strategic Dialogue on the Region's Renewable Energy Transition
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and World Health Organisation (WHO)
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Accelerating Atoll Adaptation: Country-Led Action
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Connecting Finance to Frontline Communities
Oxfam in the Pacific in collaboration with Oxfam Australia and the Tuvalu Climate Action Network
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
From Commitment to Action: How Niue's Ocean Conservation Commitments are financing long-term ocean protection, climate resilience and sustainable development through a country-led, community-driven approach.
Niue Ocean Wide Trust
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Offshore Renewables for Resilient Islands
IRENA
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Pacific Leadership for Stronger NDCs
RAD Platform e.V.
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4:30 PM –5:15 PM
Unlocking Pacific Renewable Energy Investment: The TIDES Partnership in Action
Government of United Kingdom (UK)
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Thu 8
Oct
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Amplifying Pacific Young Women's Voices into COP31
Shifting the Power Coalition
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
From communities to climate action in Vanuatu
Ministry of Climate Change - Vanuatu
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Just transition for Pacific Island frontline workers
Public Services International and Council of Pacific Education
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Partner Dialogue on Locally Led Adaptation and Nature Finance
The Nature Conservancy
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Pulling the emergency climate brake to keep 1.5 alive
Governments of the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, and Vanuatu, with the Climate and Clean Air Coalition
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9:00 AM –9:45 AM
Renewable Energy for Climate Resilience: Lessons from Remote Papua New Guinea
Kokoda Track Foundation (KTF)
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10:00 AM –10:45 AM
Coral Reefs - a call to climate action
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Accelerating the Global Early Warning and Early Action Agenda
Government of Samoa, CREWS, EW4All Pillars and REAP
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis through Zero Waste in Big Ocean States: Synergies for Climate, Ocean, and Biodiversity
Sasakawa Peace Foundation
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Bringing Climate Finance to Communities: How the Tonga Climate Change Fund (TCCF) is Changing the Climate Finance Approach in Tonga
Governments of Tonga & New Zealand
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Financial Protection Against Climate-related Shocks
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS)
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Ocean: At the Heart of Climate
Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF)
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Reefs Without Borders: Pacific and Global Action to Bring Reefs to COP31
Co-hosted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF Coral Reefs Rescue Initiative, and The Nature Conservancy, Global Environment Facility, Global Fund for Coral Reefs, High Level Climate Champions, M
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10:15 AM –11:00 AM
Towards a 100% Renewable Energy Future for the Blue Pacific: Aligning Energy Security, Climate Resilience and Clean Transport for a Just and Equitable Transition
Ministry of Public Works, Meteorological Services and Transport - Fiji (MPWMST)
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Accelerating Action on Climate Mobility: From Policy Commitments to Implementation
Technical Working Group on Human Mobility
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Country-Led Action: 10 Years of Progress
NDC Partnership
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Faith in Action: Pacific Voices for Climate Justice
Uniting NSW.ACT
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11:45 AM –12:15 PM
From research vessel to regional resilience
CSIRO
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Grassroots Recyclers’ Journey: Peaks and Valleys
Waste Recyclers Fiji Limited & Pacific Recycling Foundation
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Pacific Local Governments at the Ocean-Climate Frontline
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Pacific Islands Office
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11:45 AM –12:30 PM
Rural Electrification: Blended Finance Showcase
Government of United Kingdom (UK)
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1:15 PM –2:00 PM
Australia & The Pacific: Where Climate Solutions Begin
Farmers for Climate Action
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1:15 PM –2:00 PM
From Dialogue to Delivery: Ocean Health, the Blue Economy and the COP31 Outcome
Civil Society Forum of Tonga
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1:15 PM –2:00 PM
From Readiness to Results in the Pacific
Green Climate Fund
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1:15 PM –2:00 PM
Pacific Health in a Changing Climate: Country-led Innovation for Resilient Health Systems
Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Fiji
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1:15 PM –2:00 PM
Pacific Knowledge, Pacific Futures: Emerging Pacific Research Shaping Climate Policy and Negotiations
University of the South Pacific and the University of Bergen
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1:15 PM –2:00 PM
Power starts at home: Pacific rooftop solar
The Smart Energy Council, C40 and Solar Citizen
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1:15 PM –2:00 PM
Unlocking Blue Pacific Prosperity
Pacific Community (SPC)
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