Pacific Action for Climate Transitions (PACT)

We are improving economic resilience and community wellbeing in response to climate change in the South Pacific.

Working together, we can build resilient island communities

Climate change is threatening the Pacific Islands way of life. The region is experiencing more cyclones and severe storms, while rising sea levels are endangering coastal communities. Economic and social systems are increasingly threatened, as is physical and mental wellbeing in local communities. So how can academia help safeguard the region’s future while developing crucial learnings for the rest of the world?

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Monash University celebrates gift from the David Brand Foundation to establish Chair in Natural Capital Investment

L-R Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University, Prof Sharon Pickering, David Brand, Prof Simon Wilkie, Head of MBUS, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University has established a new senior research Chair to work towards a more sustainable future through research that translates into commercialised and practical outcomes for the benefit of local and global communities.

Pacific symposium builds evidence to address climate loss and damage

In a historic first, Monash University will co-host a symposium bringing together more than 150 researchers, policymakers and community leaders, and presenting evidence for addressing the irreversible impacts of climate change in the Pacific.
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Messages from our leaders

Our aim is to produce meaningful research that will impact real-world policies

“There are many global learnings to be had because the Pacific Islands are facing the brunt of climate change now, but it's coming to all of us. There’s a lot they can teach the rest of the world.”
Professor Simon Wilkie, Head, Monash Business School, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University

Research to be grounded in the needs of Pacific communities

“Pacific people will gain access to new knowledge that will enable them to address myriad climate change issues through research that is conducted for our people, by our people.”
Professor Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, Vice-Chancellor, Fiji National University

Our research

In their study of sustainable land management in Fiji, effects of extreme weather on mental health and more, our researchers are breaking new ground.

After the storm: Mobilising climate finance in the Pacific

When Tropical Cyclone Pam struck Vanuatu in 2015, it destroyed communities and livelihoods. For Monash PhD candidate Corey Huber, it set him on a path to tackling one of the Pacific’s biggest climate challenges.

Giving high-risk coastal communities a voice

Assistant Professor Amelia Turagabeci, Dr Rohan Sweeney and their teams are working with vulnerable Fijian communities to develop a much-needed strategy - how to best protect social, community and economic wellbeing.

How does extreme weather impact mental health?

The link between environmental impacts and mental health has received little attention in the Pacific Islands. Dr Violet Erasito, Professor David Johnston and their colleagues say now is the time to change this.

The next generation of climate laws

Associate Professor Anita Foerster and Adarshani Vikash are among those working to enhance the impact of Fiji’s Climate Change Act, the blueprint for how the island nation will adapt and respond to worsening impacts of climate change.

Saving Fiji’s ‘last remaining intact forests’

Dr Shipra Shah and Dr Paulo Santos are leading a project to promote sustainable land management and help save Fiji’s forests from deforestation and degradation. The key to ending the threat is making agroforesty economically viable, they say.

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