The global development landscape faces profound upheaval as major donors sharply cut back on foreign aid. The Pacific Islands face an especially uncertain outlook as the world’s most aid-dependent region. This edition of the Pacific Aid Map presents five key findings that are critical to understanding the future of development and competition in the region.

The Pacific Islands have become an arena of intensifying geopolitical competition. This policy brief proposes Australia should lead the creation of a formal intelligence-sharing framework – a 'Pacific Eyes agreement' – initially involving Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji, the four most closely aligned countries in the region.

Pacific Island countries are among the most climate vulnerable in the world and face huge unmet adaptation financing needs. This policy brief outlines how it is in Australia’s interest to help meet this need. It recommends that Australia should direct more of its aid resources to the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific for...

This report warns that unprecedented ocean warming, sea level rise, and extreme weather are endangering lives, ecosystems, and economies across the South-West Pacific. It calls for urgent investment in adaptation, early warnings and climate-resilient development.

A proposition on climate justice for Australian First Nations and Pacific Islander communities addresses mitigation, adaptation, remediation and transformation. The proposition asserts that communities suffering the most adverse effects of climate change should be represented in decision making by the United Nations and sovereign country agencies and should be partners in the design of policy...