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Managing Director / Publisher
Netani Rika

Managing Editor
Samantha Magick A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

The International Maritime Organisation will meet in July to discuss how to cut
greenhouse gas emissions – a cause that has been championed by the IMO’s Pacific
Island members, as we have consistently reported.
Designer
Dick Lee
But in coverage from Marshall Islands in June, we look at shipping sustainability in a
much broader sense, not only for what it can do for reducing carbon emissions, but
Contributors
also its role in building sustainability of culture and traditional knowledge, inclusive
Jeshua Hope education and healthy societies. Read about the inspiring work Alson Kelen and Waan
Nic Maclellan Aelõñ in Majel are doing in our cover story, starting on page 10.
Noelene Nabulivou
Kite Pareti In this issue we also preview emerging issues in the leadup to COP28, including a
Rowena Singh contribution from Pacific feminist organisation DIVA for Equality, about why they will
Kaliopate Tavola not be going to the meeting in the United Arab Emirates. Nic Maclellan gives an
update on the Pacific’s climate diplomacy beyond the IPCC and we hear from an
Sera Tikotikovatu-Sefeti
author of a new book urging us to look beyond climate ‘dystopia’ to personal action.

Labour mobility is a hot button issue for the Pacific and we hear various perspectives
on its benefit and continued challenges in this issue. You will also find an update on
global human resource and recruitment issues, and how they are playing out in the
Pacific in these pages.
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