Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says there are plans to use the Presidency of the COP 23 to do whatever it takes to reverse the global course on greenhouse gas emissions protect all vulnerable nations including Fiji from the climate-related catastrophes already at our shores.
Speaking at the opening of the new Jeremiah College in Tacirua, Bainimarama says Fiji is assuming the Presidency of the 23rd conference of parties, known as COP 23, which is the governing body of the United Nations negotiations between countries to deal with climate change.
He says last year he has spent many days abroad encouraging all nations of the world to change the wasteful and irresponsible behaviour that is warming the planet and causing severe weather events like Tropical Cyclone Winston and other disasters.
Bainimarama adds some of the consequences of that behaviour cause immediate devastation like severe storms or the droughts that threaten crops and our ability to sustain ourselves.
