Corrigendum to Racial formation, coloniality, and climate finance organizations: Implications for emergent data projects in the Pacific

This commentary explores the potential consequence of latent racial formation in emergent climate finance data projects and draws from ethnographic research on climate finance governance conducted in Fiji. Climate finance data projects emerging in the Pacific aim to ease the flow of finance from the Global North to the South. These emergent data projects, such as renewable energy resource availability and investment mapping, are imbedded in the climate finance organizations that fund, develop, and use them. Thus, the commentary explores climate finance organizations through the lens of Ray’s (2019) theory of racial organizations, highlighting the ways in which important climate-related resources are mediated through racial and colonial schemas. The racial mediation of two key resources are spotlighted in this discussion: the finance itself and knowledge. Given that the Pacific region is at the coalface of climate change’s existential effects, the just allocation of resources is imperative. In interrogating the ways in which emergent data projects may deny these resources based on hidden racial schemas, the paper cautions against new and old forms of colonization that may be mobilized through even well-meaning techno-benevolent fixes ( Benjamin, 2019 ).

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Organizing Climate Finance in the Pacific

Combatting Climate Change in the Pacific ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-69647-8_5 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 87-108

Author(s):

Marc Williams ◽

Duncan McDuie-Ra

Keyword(s):

Climate Finance ◽

The Pacific

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Introduction

Flavors of Empire ◽

10.1525/california/9780520293731.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Padoongpatt

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Asian American ◽

Racial Formation ◽

Global City ◽

The Pacific ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Food Identity ◽

Late Twentieth Century ◽

The U.S

The introduction lays out the main arguments, central claims, agenda, and goals of the book. It makes a case for studying food, identity, and community in relation to race rather than simply as an expression of culture. It identifies key historical forces and significant turning points to structure the narrative arc of the story of food in the making of Thai American identity and community in Los Angeles from the end of World War II to the present. This narrative is woven into a discussion of the relevant scholarship on Asian American foodways, the U.S. empire in Asia and the Pacific, and the rise of Los Angeles as a global city to establish a basis for the book and how it extends and challenges existing studies on racial formation in the late twentieth-century United States. The introduction ends with a detailed description of archives and methodology and brief chapter summaries.

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Legal Readiness to Attract Climate Finance: Towards a Low-Carbon Asia and the Pacific

Carbon & Climate Law Review ◽

10.21552/cclr/2018/1/4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 6-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

T. Morita ◽

C. Pak

Keyword(s):

Climate Finance ◽

Low Carbon ◽

The Pacific

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Gazing over the horizon: Will an equitable Green Climate Fund allocation policy be significant for the Pacific post-2020?

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v25i1.393 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (1&2) ◽

pp. 158-172

Author(s):

Jale Samuwai ◽

Jeremy Maxwell Hills

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Small Island ◽

Special Focus ◽

Climate Finance ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Allocation Policy ◽

Fund Allocation ◽

Green Climate Fund ◽

The Pacific ◽

Change Response

The establishment of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has increased expectations and optimism amongst developing countries, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The GCF aims to channel a significant portion of global funds for climate change response, with a goal of reaching US$100 billion per year by 2020. Portrayed as a timely saviour to the climate finance needs of vulnerable countries, the allocation of GCF funds among countries will be key to low carbon and resilient futures. Its broad allocation policy increases the possibility that particularly vulnerable countries which have struggled to access international climate finance will continue to face such challenges. Adopting an equitable/fair principle of allocation, this article highlights a number of scenarios on the possible impact of the post-2020 climate financing environment on particularly vulnerable countries with a special focus on the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS). This study argues that PSIDS are extremely sensitive to GCF allocation mechanisms. While the study supports the notion of balanced allocation as currently advanced by the GCF, the precarious situation of PSIDS necessitates a re-think of how the GCF finance is to be allocated in the future.

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The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽

10.1017/s0030812900130597 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 1373-1374

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Stanford University ◽

The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

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A scanning electron microscopic study of the veliger larvae of the scallop argopecten purpuratus

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100103486 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 284-285

Author(s):

G.C. Bellolio ◽

K.S. Lohrmann ◽

E.M. Dupré

Keyword(s):

Morphological Description ◽

Electron Microscopic ◽

Larval Stages ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopic Study ◽

The Pacific ◽

Argopecten Purpuratus ◽

Veliger Larvae ◽

20 Nm ◽

Ethanol Series ◽

Scanning Electron

Argopecten purpuratus is a scallop distributed in the Pacific coast of Chile and Peru. Although this species is mass cultured in both countries there is no morphological description available of the development of this bivalve except for few characterizations of some larval stages described for culture purposes. In this work veliger larvae (app. 140 pm length) were examined by the scanning electron microscope (SEM) in order to study some aspects of the organogenesis of this species.Veliger larvae were obtained from hatchery cultures, relaxed with a solution of MgCl2 and killed by slow addition of 21 glutaraldehyde (GA) in seawater (SW). They were fixed in 2% GA in calcium free artificial SW (pH 8.3), rinsed 3 times in calcium free SW, and dehydrated in a graded ethanol series. The larvae were critical point dried and mounted on double scotch tape (DST). To permit internal view, some valves were removed by slightly pressing and lifting the tip of a cactus spine wrapped with DST, The samples were coated with 20 nm gold and examined with a JEOL JSM T-300 operated at 15 KV.

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