Marshalling a Pacific Response to Climate Change

Abstract

This chapter seeks to address the question: ‘Are Pacific states marshalling a collective and cohesive Pacific response to climate change?’ In doing so, it will examine how the expansion of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to include more interest areas, actors and alliances, has had an impact on Pacific cohesion. Firstly, it will examine how the splitting and subsequent division of Pacific states into various issue areas has led them to engage in new affiliations known as climate clubs, alternative forums and alliances; secondly, it will assess the efforts of regional institutions in facilitating a more