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When Pacific leaders meet next week for the Pacific Islands Forum summit, they need to drastically overhaul their regional E-Commerce Strategy.

After pretenses that it might be more solicitous towards people, as opposed to big companies, the WTO followed the money masters.

Developing nations have some wins at the Ministerial Conference but developed nations benefit most  

Civil society members claim current negotiations tabled at the WTO’s MC12 do not favour developing countries  

Representatives of Pacific civil society and conservation groups are calling on the New Zealand government to show regional leadership and support a moratorium on deep sea mining.

<p>There are four key enablers for the journey to net zero:</p>
<ul>
<li><span>carbon pricing in some form;</span></li>
<li><span>emissions standards, across various activities;</span></li>
<li><span>technological advances, in renewables as well as energy efficiency;</span></li>
<li><span>green finance</span></li>
</ul>

Representatives of Pacific civil society and conservation groups are calling on the New Zealand government to show regional leadership and support a moratorium on deep sea mining.

Pacific Scoop provides news and views from the Pacific and New Zealand

The commission found Pacific and subsidiary ComNet are subject to exploitation, influence, and control by the Chinese government.

Experts from around the Pacific discuss Deep Sea Mining (DSM) authorizations and their connection to ecological racism at an upcoming webinar.