Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
Ralph REGENVANU
Vanuatu’s Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, Energy, Environment, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards and Disaster Management
Vanuatu’s Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, Energy, Environment, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards and Disaster Management
Ralph Regenvanu is Vanuatu’s Minister for Climate Change Adaptation, Energy, Environment, Meteorology, Geo-Hazards and Disaster Management, and is currently serving his sixth term as the Member of Parliament for Vanuatu’s capital and largest city Port Vila. Ralph has a background in cultural heritage management, and served as Director of the National Museum of Vanuatu from 1995 until 2006, during which time he was also a founding Board Member of both the Pacific Islands Museums Association (PIMA) and the regional cultural sites preservation organization, ICOMOS Pasifika. As Vanuatu’s Foreign Minister in 2019, Ralph initiated Vanuatu’s push for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on the climate obligations of states, and as Climate Change Minister in 2022 signed Vanuatu up as one of the first state champions of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Ralph is currently the Pacific Ministerial Champion for Loss and Damage, and also sits on Vanuatu’s National Security Council.