As climate change accelerates, Pacific Island nations face the twin challenges of increasing climate vulnerability and financial constraints that limit their ability to invest in resilience and recovery. This podcast will explore what a just and effective climate finance system could look like in the next decade and the structural barriers that must be overcome to achieve transformative change. This podcast was recorded as part of the Climate justice and loss and damage in the Pacific conference.
Timestamps:
00:51 - Introduction
05:54 - Loss and damage debates need to engage with a dual debt crisis: the ecological debt owed by the Global North to the Global South and how this is entangled with broader questions of justice
18:52 - The Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) as the first Pacific-led, owned and managed regional resilience financing facility for community climate and disaster resilience
31:29 - The dual challenge faced by many developing countries: unsustainable debt and increasing climate vulnerability
42:50 - Q+A
Speakers:
Associate Professor Kate Owens (Chair), Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Finau Soqo, Manager, Pacific Resilience Facility
Magalie Masamba, law and policy advisor
Dr Julia Dehm, La Trobe University
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