{"id":478082,"date":"2026-10-10T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=478082"},"modified":"2026-10-10T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:18:47","slug":"fiji-pre-cop31-climate-conference-panic-is-anyone-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=478082","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Pre COP31 Climate Conference Panic: \u201cis anyone listening?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens are starting to worry they have lost their audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talanoa: Is anyone listening? Global leaders need to learn and act on climate change in the Pacific <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Prof. Jioji Ravulo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pacific people have raised the alarm on climate change for decades, as rising seas pull them away from their homes, weather patterns become more extreme, and traditional food sources come under threat.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is anyone listening?\u202f<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) made a landmark ruling in July 2025, holding countries legally responsible for the harms they are causing related to climate change.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he International Court of Justice (ICJ) made a landmark ruling in July 2025, holding countries legally responsible for the harms they are causing related to climate change.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For climate action activists and leaders in the Pacific, the ruling was an opportunity to focus climate change to a human rights and justice approach. Placing Pacific people and their lived and living experience in the centre of the narrative should be privileged, and key to accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional funds are needed by governments to support these transitions. However, Pacific people risk abandoning centuries of connection to the vanua, including ancestors that are buried and won\u2019t be relocated.

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/pacific\/talanoa-climate-change-pacific-is-anyone-listening-cop31\/107220240<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You can understand the distress of the Climate Cargo Cult<\/a>. They\u2019re putting their hearts into the money dance, dancing their feet off, but no bales of cash are showing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, they\u2019re going to try to bombard us with more heart rending \u201cstories\u201d, to try to summon back the cash \u2013 but the timing couldn\u2019t be worse. The Trump Administration thinks the climate crisis is fraud, and climate believer administrations like the governments of Australia, Canada and Europe don\u2019t have any cash to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder how people like Professor Jioji Ravulo<\/a> will explain to climate activists that the magic isn\u2019t working anymore? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How bad a flop will COP31 prove to be? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many climate activists will jump ship and join the United Nations new Artificial Intelligence COP<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think the climate movement will completely disappear. Those cargo cults which appeared when Pacific Islanders saw the US military airdropping supplies during WW2, some of them are still active, still holding out hope the magic food and money rain will one day return. But nobody cares about a bunch of powerless true believers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My prediction is COP31 is the turning point we\u2019ve all been waiting for \u2013 after COP31, the power of the green movement will be broken, and they will rapidly lose any remaining ability to mess up our lives with climate narratives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greens are starting to worry they have lost their audience.<\/p>\n

You can understand the distress of the Climate Cargo Cult. They\u2019re putting their hearts into the money dance, dancing their feet off, but no bales of cash are showing up.<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration thinks the climate crisis is fraud, and climate believer administrations like the governments of Australia, Canada and Europe don\u2019t have any cash to spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":478083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore the urgency of climate change at COP31 in Fiji, as Pacific voices call for action against rising seas and extreme weather.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Urgent Climate Change Concerns at Pre-COP31 Meeting in Fiji","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691844172,691835456,691818608,691818056,691839788,691846220,691831896,691824566,691820037,691846221,691827794],"class_list":["post-478082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australias-energy-and-climate-minister-chris-bowen","tag-australian-prime-minister-anthony-albanese","tag-climate-activists","tag-climate-change","tag-cop31-u-n-climate-summit-in-turkiye","tag-fiji-pre-cop","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-pacific-islands","tag-sea-level-rise-2","tag-talanoa","tag-the-united-nations-un","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-20n0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":266880,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=266880","url_meta":{"origin":478082,"position":0},"title":"The New Dark Ages? 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