WorldChina and Oil Shocks Push Climate Down Pacific Islands’ Agenda

For years, Pacific island nations persuaded larger and more powerful allies that climate change was the region’s defining security challenge. They also pressed those partners to respond. The focus is now shifting as China and oil shocks push climate concerns lower on the islands’ agenda. The change marks a departure from the priority these countries had worked to establish.

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