Climate: the main messages from the EU addressed by Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra during Pacific pre-COP31

Continuing the pursuit of clean electrification as central to the energy transition, maintaining science as the backbone of all climate action, despite global hesitation and denialism, and prioritizing resilience. Those were the three messages from the EU addressed by Woepke Hoekstra at the Pacific pre-COP 31 held in Suva, Fiji, on 7 October 2026.

The Commissioner for Climate, Net-Zero and Clean Growth attends the event, which precedes and prepares for the COP31 negotiations. It opened on 5 October and will end on 8 October.

Questioned about the financial cost of transition to clean energy for Pacific Communities, Commissioner Hoekstra declared that the EU “will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Pacific”. Including individual Member States and the EIB, the EU's past…