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Apia, SAMOA — Last week Samoa launched the process to fulfil its obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – an international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Third National Communications (3NC) and the first Biennial Update Report (BUR)...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Climate negotiators are facing an uphill battle heading into the latest United Nations climate talks in Poland next week.
Pledges from countries to meet the 2015 Paris Climate target, which is to keep the global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius...

![Participants of the joint NESSC special meeting & launching of the TNC & BUR Project at Taumeasina Resort in Apia last Friday. [courtesy Samoa govt]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/participants_of_the_joint_nessc_special_meeting_launching_of_the_tnc_bur_project_at_taumeasina_resort_today_.jpg?itok=_TXGG0kc)
![Visitors use an escalator past a poster featuring the Fiji Islands on the opening day of the COP 23 United Nations Climate Change Conference on November 6, 2017 in Bonn, Germany. [Photo: AFP/Oliver Berg] Visitors use an escalator past a poster featuring the Fiji Islands on the opening day of the COP 23 United Nations Climate Change Conference on November 6, 2017 in Bonn, Germany](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/cop_23.jpg?itok=iRK23Ihj)