SUVA, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama on Tuesday called for joint efforts to tackle climate change as it threatens everyone.
He made the call while opening the Climate Induced Security Workshop in Sigatoka, a town about 126 km west of the capital city of Suva. He said people must work together to respond to this greatest of tests that affected national security.
Bainimarama said the world looks to Fiji as a climate champion because Fiji was the first country to ratify the Paris Agreement, and among the first to engrain climate-centric thinking across the development by moving their Climate Change Unit into their Ministry of Economy.
He said that's because they know that when it comes to a changing climate and rising seas, the best defence is a good offense where hundreds of millions of dollars are invested into the resilience and adaptation of Fijian infrastructure.
He noted that rising sea levels threatened coastal communities, already resulting in the planned relocation of up to 48 communities across Fiji. Enditem