Julia Edwards
Julia Edwards worked in Fiji between 2010 -2019. She worked as a researcher at the Pacific Conference of Churches on climate change and resettlement within the Pacific region. Julia has developed considerable expertise in the field of climate change during her placement in the Pacific and is now a member of the Fiji Government delegation at the COP.
Contact: Pacific Conference of Churches, 4 Thurston Street, Suva, Fiji
Email: chaoticnature@hotmail.com
Julia was seconded to the United Church in Papua New Guinea between 2018-19 and here is a link to her most recent update.
Below is a link to a general article on the situation and the approach by churches regarding the earthquake that occurred at the end of February in Papua New Guinea, the reality is more harrowing.
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Read Julia's latest newsletter:
• Advent Blessings
Newsletter Archive:
• El Niño and the advent of disaster preparedness among the highlanders of Papua New Guinea
• No wait: No gud u late - Market Vendor Disaster Preparedness, August 2017
• 'Rising hope during rising tides': the presentation of a peace candle during the Ecumenical Youth Concert, Suva, Fiji
• Live to Tell - Stronger than Winston, October 2016
• Relocation: rising seas and raising awareness in Solomon Islands, April 2016
• Hotting up in the Pacific: Collective cries ahead of the COP21 climate talks in Paris, September 2015
• Raising educational standards, May 2015
• Relocation revisited, November 2014
• Nansen Initative collaboration, September 2014
• In Solidarity with West Papua, June 2014
• Dengue Fever, March 2014
• The Late President of the Methodist Church in Fiji, March 2014
• I-Kiribati in the Solomon Islands, March 2014
• Betel Nut Ban PNG, March 2014
• May 2013
• March - April 2013
• January - February 2013
• October - November 2012
• August - September 2012
• April - May 2012
• March 2012
• January - February 2012
• October - November 2011
• August 2011
• Namoli Framework for Hermeneutics
• The Carteret Islands
• May - June 2011
• April 2011
• February- March 2011
• February 2011
• January 2011
• Breast Cancer Awareness, October 2010
• Bula Bulletin, October 2010
UN Conference of the Parties climate talks (COP 20)
Julia has developed considerable expertise in the field of climate change during her placement in the Pacific and is now a member of the Fiji Government delegation at the COP.
Read her contributions from the recent debate:
• Greetings from the debate
• Interesting facts from Lima
• Gender on the Agenda
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