Kiribati enhancing climate resilience through the upgrading of its National Building Codes

The Regional Pacific Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Hub has supported Kiribati in the development of minimum technical standards and requirements that are necessary for ensuring the integration of energy efficiency and green building...

TMC shares surge as support for deep sea mining grows ahead of Trump presidency

Meanwhile, Elise Stefanik, Marco Rubio, Howard Lutnick and William McGinley — all nominees for positions in the president-elect’s administration — have previously voiced support for ocean mining. “If the US is to get involved in deep sea mining,...

What Do Companies Need in a Future-Ready ERP?

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Coast Guard, partners conclude Operation Ika Moana in Samoa 

Boats crews comprising Samoan Police Maritime Wing officers, U.S. Coast Guard Mobile Training Team members, and Operation Ika Moana participants conduct training offshore Apia, Samoa, Aug. 12, 2025. During Operation Ika Moana, patrol boat crews...

Will ‘sinking’ islands like Maldives exist once the seas take over their land?

Avidan Kent, University of East Anglia and Zana Syla, University of East Anglia Small island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives and Marshall Islands are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Rising seas, stronger storms,...

Deep-Sea Mining 101: Everything You Need to Know

Quick Key Facts What Is ‘Deep-Sea Mining’? Deep-sea mining is the process of retrieving mineral deposits from the ocean floor using destructive methods such as dredging, drilling and hydraulic pumps. These methods disrupt and harm marine life and...

India offers $500,000 in relief to quake-hit Vanuatu. China sends supplies, engineering team

New Delhi: India Thursday offered $500,000 (Rs 4.3 crore) in rehabilitation assistance to Vanuatu, following the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of its capital city Port Vila on 17 December. “As a close friend and partner under...

The most-read pieces on Mining Technology in 2024

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Pacific group pushing for global shipping to act on climate target

A group of Pacific states, known as the 6-PAC, is leading the call for the shipping industry to align itself with the 1.5 degrees’ climate target. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is meeting for the next fortnight for a climate summit...

How Pacific resistance to seabed mining is growing amid neocolonial fears

The proposal of seabed mining has been met with resistance from Indigenous communities and environmental groups in Aotearoa and the Cook Islands. Ngāti Ruanui and Greenpeace Aotearoa travelled to Australia to disrupt an AGM of a mining company...

Pacific Tourism Organisation’s First-Ever Business Confidence Index in Kiribati Unveils Local Businesses’ on Tourism Development

The Pacific Tourism Organisation’s Pacific Tourism Data Initiative (PTDI) completed its first-ever Business Confidence Index survey (BCI) in Kiribati, offering invaluable insights into local businesses’ views on tourism in the country. Conducted...

Solomon Islands removes menstrual product taxes

AS President of French Polynesia Moetai Brotherson attends the 54th Pacific Islands Forum in Solomon Islands this week, he has spoken about the legacies of French nuclear testing in his country, and called for strengthening the South Pacific...

How, Exactly, Could Deep-Sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity?

Article body copy When Arvid Pardo, a Maltese diplomat, took the floor at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1967 and began speaking at length on international law, the room was sparsely populated. Pardo was undeterred. The deep,...

Vanuatu Tourism Industry Shows Resilience and Optimism in 2024

The Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), in collaboration with the Vanuatu Tourism Office (VTO), released the January-June 2024 International Visitor Survey (IVS) Report. The report examines key aspects such as visitor profiles, decision-making...

Shallow Promises: How Australia’s Involvement in Deep-Sea Mining is Undermining its Stated Commitments 

The Pacific is​​, as former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described in 2018, a region where “we have special responsibilities” and where “we are connected as members of a Pacific family​.​”​ Curiously, this impassioned rhetoric did not...

Seas are coming for us in Kiribati

By Akka Rimon, PhD Student, Australian National University and Anote Tong, Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence, University of Pennsylvania Despite the progress and momentum of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, we are still not moving...

The Digital Shift: Redefining Insurance with Smarter Payments

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Humanitarian Warehouse To Strengthen Disaster Preparedness In Kiribati

South Tarawa, KIRIBATI (29 November 2024) – Emergency supplies during disasters will no longer be days or weeks away for the people of Kiribati. A groundbreaking ceremony today marked the start of construction of Kiribati’s humanitarian warehouse...

New Zealand LA28 rights race hots up as Sky NZ confirms talks

Sky NZ, the country’s pay-tv giant, has confirmed that it is in discussion to secure broadcast rights for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games (LA28). The broadcaster confirmed this week that it is in “constructive discussions” with the...

Op-Ed: To Compete With China, U.S. Needs a Policy on Deep-Sea Mining

[By Georgina Lancaster] Deep-sea mining is emerging as a new frontier of resource extraction. A race is underway for underwater resources with important economic, environmental and geopolitical implications. For Pacific island countries, deep-sea...