Is Pacific Climate Diplomacy left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Pacific Climate Diplomacy scores −03 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores −02. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Pacific Climate Diplomacy authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Pacific Climate Diplomacy scores −06. Consensus regional diplomacy and litigation, including the 2023 request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice.

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Pacific Climate Diplomacy

AOSIS, Pacific Islands Forum · 1990– · Pacific · Ecological · Movement · coding confidence medium

−03ECcollective

−02CUpluralist

−06AUpluralist

+04SCcentral

−04IDuniversal

−07CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Small states using international law and moral standing to constrain the emissions of far larger ones, on grounds of existential threat.

Economic model

Fisheries licensing, aid, remittances, loss-and-damage claims against industrialised states.

Organisation of powers

Consensus regional diplomacy and litigation, including the 2023 request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice.

Reading note

Occupies a coordinate almost no other entry does: maximally supranational in method and maximally anti-concentration in structure.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored −03

Coded −3: fisheries licensing, aid and loss-and-damage claims.

Documented act or statuteThe loss and damage fund was agreed at COP27 in 2022 after decades of small-state pressure.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored −02

Coded −2: no distinctive cultural programme beyond survival.

ScholarshipThe movement is defined by a single existential interest rather than by social doctrine.

AU · Organisation of power · scored −06

Coded −6: consensus regional diplomacy with no coercive capacity at all.

Documented act or statutePacific Islands Forum decisions are taken by consensus among members with no enforcement mechanism.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +04

Coded +4: supranational law as the principal instrument of very small states.

Documented act or statuteThe UN General Assembly adopted Vanuatu's request for an ICJ advisory opinion on climate obligations by consensus in March 2023.

ID · Rule of membership · scored −04

Coded −4: statehood continuity for populations that may lose their territory.

Documented act or statuteTuvalu and Australia signed a treaty in 2023 providing migration pathways and recognising continuing statehood.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −07

Coded −7: litigation, treaty and negotiation.

ScholarshipThe 1.5 degree target was placed in the Paris Agreement largely at the insistence of small island states.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Pacific Climate Diplomacy. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/pacificclimate/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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