Update: 11:00AM PRIME Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has asked the community of nations to cut carbon emissions as deeply as necessary to achieve it.

Mr
Bainimarama says Fiji and other Pacific Island nations were in Paris with a
much more radical plan to cut emissions than is currently on the table.

“Rather
than capping the average global temperature at 2 degrees Celsius above the level
that existed before the industrial revolution, we want that cap reduced to 1.5
degrees Celsius,” he said.

He made the
comments while delivering Fiji’s first statement at the United Nations
Conference on Climate Change – COP21 in Paris, France today (Fiji time).