Pacific Institute of Public Policy

7 April, 2015

The future we want

In his latest op-ed piece, President of the Republic of Palau, Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. writes that environmental health, food security and economic prosperity are the very essence of sustainable development to establish a foundation for the future we want.

10 March, 2015

Mathew Morris

Aiming for goals

The proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out a bold vision for sustainable development, and without doubt the world has the resources and the know-how to make it a reality, but the question remains whether global institutions and sovereign states can rise to the challenge.

Supporting Timor-Leste and the Pacific in UN negotiations

28 January, 2015

PiPP Staff

Supporting Timor-Leste and the Pacific in UN negotiations

PiPP is supporting the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the United Nations and other Pacific delegations in the final phase of the intergovernmental negotiations that will define the post-2015 development agenda.

20 January, 2015

Derek Brien

Transforming global development

Negotiations on what should succeed the Millennium Development Goals resumed in New York this week. Negotiations are well under way to decide what development goals will succeed the MDGs, and this time there has been much broader input.

6 November, 2014

PiPP Staff

KEEPING THE PEACE

DP26 - There is a wider understanding of security issues emerging, such as the nexus between peace and development and what ensures ‘human security’ more broadly.

Re-casting Pacific regional architecture

4 November, 2014

Derek Brien

Re-casting Pacific regional architecture

Pacific leaders should embrace the opportunity to recalibrate our regionalism project. Let’s not fool ourselves, the discussions ahead will be difficult, but there is much to hope for if discussions progress ahead of the Sydney meeting.