Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has called for team work, not only within nations and regions but the entire world as he opened the Climate Action Pacific Partnership event at the Grand Pacific Hotel today.
He says Fiji is not pointing fingers at the rest of the world and saying it is your responsibility to solve this problem but instead it recognises that it is the collective responsibility of every global citizen to contribute to a solution.
Bainimarama says the various strands of the grand coalition must be fully committed to working collaboratively together and be totally focused on the mission ahead.
He says everyone is in the same canoe and no‑one is immune to the effects of climate change.
Bainimarama has also said that the door is always open to US President Donald Trump.
He says we all know the challenge the world faces because the American Government has abandoned its leadership on this issue but we must do whatever we can to encourage America to resume that leadership.
Paula Bennett, the New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Climate Change Issues and Concetta Fierravanti‑Wells, the Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific are also part of the meeting that ends tomorrow.
