Prime Minister and Conference of Parties 23 President Voreqe Bainimarama believes it is only a matter of time before the doubters, the sceptics of climate change are won over to their cause because the science is conclusive.
While speaking at the United Nations Foundation’s dinner, Bainimarama says as that evidence mounts, politicians who ignore it will inevitably be asked by the people who put them there, “Why did you ignore all the signs? Why did not you act decisively to save us?”
Bainimarama says climate change spares no one, whether it is the extreme weather events whose terrible force we are currently witnessing, rising sea levels or the changes to agriculture that threaten our economies and food security.
He says for almost four decades, Fiji has contributed troops to UN Peacekeeping missions in troubled parts of the world and Fiji is now determined to make a successful contribution to the wider security of the planet through Fiji’s leadership of COP23.
