Not drowning, fighting?: UN climate governance and Pacific Island countries

For many Pacific Island countries the impacts of climate change are urgent and real. A key foreign policy goal for Australia is a strong and united Pacific family that understands the regional challenges of climate security, but to what degree are Pacific Island countries influencing outcomes of the United Nations (UN) climate governance meetings? This project will deliver new understandings of how Pacific Island nations create knowledge, negotiate and influence the decision making of the UN over key climate issues. Through participant observation and interviews with representatives from Pacific Island governments and civil society, project findings will identify the way decisions about climate are made that impact the Pacific, and how critical climate change issues for the Pacific and Australia can be addressed. This knowledge can be used to strengthen climate-based policies in Australi