MINISTERIAL DIALOGUE CALLED FOR STRENGTHENING OF PCREEE AND ITS E-MOBILITY PROGRAMME

Nuku’alofa, Tonga

The recent Ministerial Dialogue on Pathways for the Global Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels recognized the PCREEE’s role in the region’s effort to accelerate the transition and called for the strengthening of the PCREEE and to urgently decarbonise land transport, including the scaling up of its Pacific electric mobility policy and programme. This is part of the new Pacific-tailored development pathways towards 100% renewable energy and a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific (F3P) agreed to at the Dialogue.

Advancing the Pacific Leaders’ call for the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5ºC,
the Dialogue was hosted in Port Vila by the Governments of Vanuatu and Tuvalu from 15-17 March 2023. Ministers and officials from the Kingdom of Tonga, the Republic of Fiji, Niue, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the Republic of Vanuatu met for an open, transparent, and inclusive discussions with regional and international experts and civil society.