About our Pacific Islands at COP29
There are fourteen Pacific Islands Parties to the UNFCCC , also signatories to the Paris Agreement.
Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
All are members of the Alliance of Small Islands States which has been chaired by Samoa for the last two years (2023 and 2024) with Palau set to take on the chair role for the next two years (2025 and 2026). These Pacific Islands also make up the Pacific Small Islands Developing States (PSIDS) which is currently chaired by Vanuatu.
Support for our Pacific Islands at COP29 from members of the Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific (CROP) is through the One CROP mechanism led by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Members of one CROP include:
• Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) – Lead
• Pacific Islands Development Program
• Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency
• Pacific Island Forum Secretariat
• Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Pacific priorities at COP29
The following have been identified as the Pacific SIDS priorities at COP29 this year.
• Climate Finance – New Collective Quantified Goal 
• Mitigation Work Programme
• Adaptation
• Global Stocktake
• Just Transition
• Loss and Damage
• Oceans
• Transparency
The following also remain as priorities for our Pacific Islands Parties with this work also continuing at COP29
• Gender and Social Inclusion
• Research and Systematic Observations
• Article 6
• Agriculture
• Capacity Building and Technology
Pacific briefs will be finalised for distribution by the lead negotiators from the Pacific supported by the OneCROP along with a range of resources such as a Pacific Compass Pocket Guide tailored for PSIDS to support navigation through COP29 and a range of Pacific Beat resources for our PSIDS.
Supporting preparation for COP29
Across a two-month period from September – October 2024 there were nine virtual in-depth analysis sessions for our PSIDS, providing a stocktake on the below issues. These were led by SPREP and the One-CROP in partnerships with Climate Analytics.
- Adaptation
- Article 6
- Climate Finance – NCQG
- Gender
- Global Stocktake
- Mitigation
- Just Transition
- Loss and Damage
- Oceans
From 30 September to 3 October 2024, the PSIDS COP29 Preparatory Meeting for Climate Change Ministers and Officials, and the Pacific Islands Countries Climate Change Ministerial Talanoa with Australia and New Zealand was held in Fiji. It was funded by the Government of Australia and facilitated by SPREP. The meetings allowed the PSIDS to focus on the Pacific priority thematic areas for climate change negotiations supporting discussion on strategic direction and regional positions ahead of COP29.
Work to support our PSIDS engage effectively at COP29 is assisted by the Strengthening Pacific Leadership in International Climate Change Engagement (SPLICE) Project funded by the Government of Australia and implemented by SPREP.
Financial support for PSIDS delegates to attend COP29 to strengthen the One Pacific Voice is funded by the Governments of Australia and New Zealand.
News stemming from the pre-COP events
• 20 September 2024 - Road to COP29: Call to act in hope as Pacific countries gather to advance push for climate ambition
• 2 October 2024 - Climate finance on list of Pacific thematic priorities as negotiators prepare for COP29
• 3 October 2024 - Road to COP29: The New Collective Quantified Goal and what it means for Pacific countries
• 3 October 2024 - ‘We’re more powerful together,’ Pacific Climate Change negotiators equipped for COP29
• 10 October 2024 - Let 1.5 degree target be the guardrail of current and future climate change negotiations, Pacific Climate Change Ministers urge