In the face of the devastating climate crisis and fossil-fuelled greed, hope has been our resistance. This month, the Pacific Climate Warriors will carry these hopes to COP28 in the Pacific Power Up Declaration and demand that leaders commit to building a world where Pacific people and frontline communities everywhere are safe from the climate crisis.

The Pacific Power Up Declaration

The just and equitable phase out of all fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) by 2050, to align to the 1.5°C temperature goal through:

1. An urgent global fossil fuel phase out this decade in line with a 43% reduction compared to 2019.
2. An end to subsidies and financing of fossil fuel and other carbon-emitting extractive industries.

A global Just Transition to 100% community-centered renewable energy through:

1. The swift scale-up of renewable energy projects that:
   • Support energy justice, enable energy access to all and increase social equity at domestic and international levels.
   • Do not compromise biodiversity or land that is needed for the food, water and well-being of communities, or threaten the rights and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and frontline communities for the pursuit of raw materials or production of energy.
   • Reject extractive relationships and pave the way for energy democracy, transferring ownership and control of renewable energy infrastructure from private monopolies increasingly to communities and the public sector or small and medium enterprises.
   • A global renewables target that triples fair, safe and clean renewable energy capacity to 11.000 gigawatts by 2030, with yearly deployment of 1.5 terawatts of renewable energy from 2030 onwards;
   • A doubling of yearly energy efficiency gains.

Efficient and accessible finance for the energy transition including:

1. The redirection of fossil fuel corporation profits by all governments towards the rollout of community-centered renewable energy.
2. An additional $100 billion USD per year in concessional finance (loans with reduced rates) that are not debt-inducing. 
3. Grant-based finance to support Pacific island countries in financing the deployment of renewable energy in a timely and sustainable manner.

Pacific Climate Warriors Power Up Vision

My Hope For My Islands 

Is to heal, to re-generate, to love, to be safe, and have peace. 

That at all levels, community, government, civil society, those in power and the marginalized all share the same understanding and resolve in addressing the climate crisis. 

That our islands will still be here in 100 years. That we are independent and sovereign states, places we will forever call home. 

That my home will see another tomorrow, to know my home is there when one day I have finished uni when our children have finished school

That the bones of our ancestors will rest, untouched by the encroaching sea, and the next generation of youth will not have to move our graves or watch them be washed away. 

That the backs of our families are not gradually bent and broken from rebuilding seawalls 

That our mothers live without fear of the tides, holding our children in a safe embrace rooted in the knowledge that she will hold generations more of her children and her childrens children

That we can continue to create new generations of dreamers, of weavers, of builders and leaders who remember where we’ve come from. 

That we embrace each other despite race, age, colour and creed, working together to protect our homes and leave no one behind

That Indigenous people everywhere are guaranteed the resources they need to build their own climate solutions. That we organize and uplift marginalized communities everywhere, knowing our liberation is tied 

That we centre the voices of grassroots communities who experience the realities of climate-induced impacts and violence, including those who are most impacted and most vulnerable. 

My Hope for our future: 

Is that we move beyond our addiction to fossil fuels and embrace living in balance with the world and with each other

And that we live and experience a just and equitable transition to renewable energy and be informed of a fight towards a climate consequence-free pacific. 

As Pacific Climate Warriors, we will honour the way of our ancestors by being able to practice our traditional and indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing. To achieve this and we will do that by affirming our commitment to the Pacific Climate Warriors Power Up Declaration