Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport (MCST) Blog

  Andrew Irwin is the project officer at the Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport. While the COP26 team is returning from Glasgow, the International Maritime Organisation is preparing for its 77th Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting from 22nd-26th November. It marks another opportunity for Fiji to offer strong climate leadership in solidarity with its Pacific neighbours.  This is especially pressing, given the tenor of the global climate dialogue with the closing remarks of UN SG António Guterres – “It is an important step but is not enough. We must accelerate climate action to keep alive the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees.”  So in Glasgow, where Fiji’s Prime Minister and Minister of Economy raised the topics of green hydrogen as a shipping fuel and an electric public transportation system, respectively, the realities of structuring, financing, and transitioning the transport subsectors domestically will need to be explored and deta

  Maria Sahib is a Consultant with the Micronesian Centre for Sustainable Transport (MCST)  The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties has kicked off this week in Glasgow, Scotland. The Presidency theme this COP is based around climate change challenges including: Adaptation and resilience - to help communities adapt to, and prepare for, the worst impacts of climate change.  Nature-based solutions - to safeguard and restore natural habitats and ecosystems to preserve the planet’s biodiversity.  Energy transitions - to accelerate the clean energy transition by encouraging the use of cheaper renewables and storage.  Clean transport - to clean our air by speeding up the global transition to zero emission vehicles.  Finance - to encourage our financial systems to be cleaner to unlockgrowth and create green jobs.  The aim of the climate vulnerable countries, including the Pacific region, is to keep the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees alive. As indicated and