Pacific Climate & Unity Push: Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Palau backed major regional reforms, stronger collective security, and stepped-up climate action, with funding support for the Pacific Resilience Facility and a move to implement the 2050 Blue Pacific Continent strategy. El Niño Warning for PNG: Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology says the strengthening El Niño is likely to break heat records, with UN warnings of major impacts—raising the stakes for drought and cyclone risk across the Pacific, including PNG. Earthquake Shakes PNG: A 5.7 quake hit Papua New Guinea at about 2004 GMT, with a shallow depth reported by GFZ. Carbon Market Momentum: PNG is strengthening its carbon trading rules and advancing jurisdictional REDD+ under ART-TREES, aiming to turn standing rainforests into a credible export of carbon value. Customary Land & Environment: A call for “concentric constitutionalism” argues PNG’s environmental law should balance people, family, village, land and the state—especially where customary landowners hold the key to sustainable resource management. Renewables for Communities: A new review highlights how PNG’s off-grid mini hydropower can deliver reliable renewable power when local ownership and skills are built in. Mining Pressure on Power: Concerns are rising that alluvial gold mining could disrupt electricity supply in PNG’s Ramu grid region, adding environmental risk to already fragile power systems. Aviation Emissions Policy: Singapore deferred a green jet fuel levy for air cargo for a year, while passenger SAF levies continue—an indirect signal of how aviation decarbonisation is evolving.