Pacific nations are the most reliant on diesel for power generation worldwide. They imported about 2.2 million tonnes of fuel in 2025
“Many of our communities, because they rely on boat transport for movement are … having challenges bringing food supplies to outlying centres,” said Godfrey Bongomin, programme operations director for World Vision in Papua New Guinea.
With transport to clinics now out of reach financially for some, people were skipping medical appointments and missing life-saving HIV and tuberculosis medicines, he said. “It is affecting their livelihoods.”
Pacific Island nations are the most reliant on diesel for power generation worldwide, the International Finance Corp said in 2024. Data from Zero Carbon Analytics showed it fuelled more than half of electricity output in 2022, except for Fiji.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
