A researcher says a colonial eurocentric view of climate change is failing to recognise many of the threats and impacts in the Pacific.
For her PhD thesis at the University of Waikato, Jessica Pasisi spoke to 12 women from a range of ages and backgrounds on Niue for their perspectives on how climate change is affecting them.
Dr Pasisi, who is Niuean, also compared that to how climate change is covered in mainstream media, academia, and other avenues - and who was doing the talking.
She told Jamie Tahana that only now is the discussion starting to incorporate indigenous voices in the Pacific, and the impacts of things like culture, family and languages.
Waikato University PhD student Jessica Pasisi in Niue. Photo: Supplied.
