Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama has arrived in New York for the 74th United Nations General Assembly with the aim of calling on world leaders for concrete action plans against climate change.
The Prime Minister received a warm welcome at the Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations in New York.
Upon touching down at John F Kennedy Airport, Bainimarama wasted no time as he called for a meeting with his Fijian delegation to finalise Fiji’s robust contributions and statements to the high‑level UN General Assembly engagements.
Among other important discussions were Fiji’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, the high‑level dialogue on Financing for Development, trade, and investment, sustainable development and the review of the Samoa Pathway.
With climate change an issue that is set to dominate the UNGA74, Bainimarama says Fiji is taking an outsized leadership role at this year’s UN Climate Summit and on a host of issues critical to the security and prosperity of our people.
He will call on the world leaders to establish more robust and aggressive NDCs, which would contribute to halving the carbon emissions by 2030, reaching net‑zero emission by 2050 and also keeping climate resilience and actions at the heart of their respective national agendas.
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