Dateline Pacific evening edition for 12 December 2017

Another global summit on climate change gets underway, this time in Paris, and this time the aim is to get industry and finance involved in the fight against global warming; two opposition parties in Fiji have joined forces to contest the next election as political manoeuvring starts for the polls due next year; new health and wellness hub in American Samoa to focus on traditional healing practices; Pacific environment programme happy with progress at Fisheries Commission meeting; repatriation of native Hawaiian human remains raises hope of further returns; advocates highlight what they call a medical crisis among refugees exiled to Papua New Guinea.