Pacific Leaders Skip Palau Summit

Palau4 Pacific leaders pulled out before the summit.

The Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa absences weaken a bloc built on consensus.

The forum has no majority vote, so a quorum of no-shows functions as a veto by non-attendance.

Australia’s Anthony Albanese still attends, as the bloc weighs pilot climate projects before COP31.

Sources: The Guardian