A Moral Responsibility: NGOs Push for Australia to Up Climate Support to the Pacific

NGOs want Australia to raise its international climate finance commitment to $4 billion a year.

People load goods and medical aid on a boat in Noumea, New Caledonia, on June 10, 2024. Theo Rouby/AFP via Getty Images

Not-for-profit organisations (NGOs) has urged the Australian government to increase its climate change aid to Pacific nations, calling it a “moral responsibility.”

At a parliamentary inquiry on Sept. 2, Luke Fletcher, the CEO of Jubilee Australia–a think tank that researches economic justice in the Asia-Pacific, said Australia had not done enough to help other countries affected by climate change.