Vanuatu 🇻🇺 has a habit of seeing tomorrow before the rest of the world does. From loss and damage to the ICJ Advisory Opinion and the @fossiltreaty, Ni-Vanuatu leadership continues to shape the global climate justice movement. Hapi 46th Indipendens Dei, Vanuatu 🌺

Today, we welcome the newly constituted PICAN Board for 2026–2027 ✊🏽 Congratulations to Board Chair Lavetanalagi Seru, Vice Chair Johnston Riven, Treasurer Pritika Kumari, and our Board Members as they begin this new chapter of leadership.

Coral bleaching is the consequence of choices made over decades. Different choices can still protect the reefs that protect us. Fossil fuel pollution must end, and those most responsible must be held accountable.

Pacific communities contributed little to the emissions driving this crisis, yet our reefs are paying one of the highest prices. These ecosystems sustain food, livelihoods, culture, biodiversity and coastal protection.

Researchers tested what would happen without human-caused warming. The result was stark. Much of the heat stress driving global bleaching disappeared. Decades of fossil fuel pollution have fundamentally altered our ocean.

For years, mass bleaching was largely explained through natural climate cycles. El Niño still contributes to ocean heat, but it can no longer explain the scale and frequency of bleaching being recorded worldwide.

🪸 Was it really El Niño? A major new study finds human-caused warming has overtaken El Niño as the dominant driver of coral bleaching across the world’s reefs 🧵 🔗 tos.org/oceanography...

3/ The proposed mining site lies in the Eastern High Seas Pocket, beyond national jurisdiction. Ocean currents, migratory species and marine ecosystems don’t stop at political boundaries—and potential impacts don’t either.

A US company wants to mine the high seas between Kiribati 🇰🇮, the Cook Islands 🇨🇰 and French Polynesia 🇵🇫. The Pacific Ocean 🌊 is connected and so are the decisions that shape its future. Here’s why we should all be concerned. 🧵

5// One year on from the Advisory Opinion, we honour everyone who helped carry this movement from the Pacific to the world’s highest court. The ruling may be one year old, but the movement behind it was years in the making.

4/ These photos capture a region united by an ambitious vision for climate justice and a belief that those on the frontlines deserved to be heard by the world’s highest court.

3/ For many of us, this was when the Pacific truly rallied behind the campaign. The momentum built here helped catalyse the endorsement of Pacific Leaders and laid the foundations for the global movement that followed.

2/ In the early days of the campaign, the Alliance for a Climate Justice Advisory Opinion (ACJAO) came together under the theme “One People, One Nation, One Journey.” Steered by @pisfcc, this gathering helped build Pacific momentum behind the #ClimateICJAO.

One year ago today, the International Court of Justice delivered its historic Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. As we mark that milestone, we’re looking back to one of the moments that helped shape the journey. 🧵

The defining threat to Pacific peoples comes from a heating ocean, rising seas and intensifying storms. Resources drawn into militarisation are resources withheld from adaptation, resilience and addressing loss and damage. 🧵 pina.com.fj/2026/07/21/p...

⏳ Don’t miss out! Applications for the Pre-COP31 Australia Pacific Youth Climate Dialogue close this week. 📍 Nadi, Fiji | 1–3 Oct 🌺 Pacific: 26 Jul 🇦🇺🇳🇿 Australia & NZ: 30 Jul Apply here: unicef.link/44tCjqx

What really happened at SB64? Join us as we unpack the key outcomes from the June Climate Meetings in Bonn, what shaped negotiations, and what it all means for the Pacific on the road to COP31. 🔗 Register at bit.ly/sb64-debrief

“Let me be absolutely clear, anyone that is blocking references to science, they are not our friends” Strong remarks by Dr Sivendra Michael at #SB64 on behalf of Fiji and Pacific Small Island Developing States at the #DefendTheScience press conference yesterday. #PICANatSB64

When science is sidelined, so too are the people living with the consequences of climate change. At #SB64, we will continue to stand for science, for justice, and for a future where 1.5°C remains a line the world refuses to cross.

Today at #SB64, AOSIS Lead Climate Negotiator Anne Rasmussen raised concerns about attempts to de-link negotiations from the best available science and weaken the 1.5°C limit. The best available science must remain at the heart of these negotiations. #SB64 #PICANatSB64

When science is undermined, frontline communities pay the price. A powerful intervention from RMI Climate Envoy Tina Stege at #SB64, reminding us that science and equity are inseparable. What’s at stake in Bonn is whether Parties will heed the science and act with the urgency this moment demands.

🌍 Happening today in Bonn! Join the ICJAO Alliance for a cross-constituency workshop on turning the momentum from the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change into real implementation. 🤝 📍 WorldCCB Garden 🕟 16:30 CEST 🥨 Snacks provided

Not in Bonn but want to stay across #SB64? PICAN’s Daily Updates break down the key developments from the climate talks into a short, accessible summary, with a focus on what matters for Pacific peoples. 🔗 www.pican.org/sb64-daily-updates

The Pacific Ocean is carrying the weight of a changing climate, growing militarisation, and new sovereignty pressures. This week in Suva, Pacific peoples are coming together to take stock of where we are, share solutions, & strengthen collective action for the future of our ocean and communities.

The measure of success in Bonn won’t be how many meetings take place. It will be whether governments move from promises to implementation, from dialogue to delivery, and from commitments on paper to action that communities can actually feel.

For Pacific peoples, climate negotiations are about protecting the credibility of the science, securing resources for adaptation, and ensuring the voices of frontline communities are reflected in global decisions. The stakes are already being felt across our region.

As preparations begin for the Pacific Pre-COP and the road to COP31, this is an opportunity to ensure Pacific priorities are reflected long before final decisions are made. Influence is built early. Not at the finish line.

The climate decisions that make headlines at COPs don’t appear overnight. They are built through months of negotiations, technical work and political bargaining. Next week, negotiators return to Bonn to begin shaping the direction of climate action in 2026 and beyond.

At a time when Pacific peoples face escalating pressure on our lands, oceans, and futures, collective regional solidarity becomes a powerful force. PICAN is proud to renew our commitment to the PRNGO Alliance because the challenges facing our region cannot be met in isolation ✊🏽

Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 appointed as co-Chair of COFFIS to end fossil fuel subsidies, even as fuel hits US$8 a gallon and families face an economic emergency in Majuro. Public money must fund people, not fossil fuels 🚫. ➡️ islandsbusiness.com/news-break/m...