GOVERNMENT officials will have several bilateral meetings this week.

Environment Minister Parveen Kumar has met his Korean counterpart.

Fisheries and Forests Minister Osea Naiqamu will meet Australian officials today.

While the technical officials are preparing a draft text of the Paris Declaration, it will be the officials who will decide the text next week.

This week Foreign Affairs Minister Ratu Inoke Kubuabola attended a combined bilateral meeting with other heads of delegations from the Pacific Islands at the invitation of Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.

The bilateral meeting was organised to acknowledge that climate change was taking a hard toll on the Pacific Island States because it posed an existential threat to its people’s survival.

The Swedish Government offered its assistance in partnering closely with the Pacific Island States in tackling climate change and building resilience against the negative impacts of climate change.

Prime Minister Löfven states that Sweden has taken a leading role in climate finance to secure funding for necessary mitigation and adaptation measures.