No one person, ministry, entity or department holds all of the answers, that is why we must act selflessly and co-operatively for the good of the country and of every Fijian.
This was the word from Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum in his closing remarks at the Climate Induced Security Workshop on Thursday.
“Working with the World Bank, we conducted a climate vulnerability assessment of the country,” he said.
“It was determined it will require 9.3 billion dollars to climate-proof Fiji’s development over 10 years.
“That was a daunting figure before the COVID-19 pandemic decimated our tourism industry and brought our economy to a staggering contraction.
“Now, with Government revenues gutted, funding sustainable, resilient development has become a herculean task.”
The A-G said Fiji made a good start by mainstreaming climate considerations into National Development Plans.
“We were one of the first countries to bring our climate change unit into our Ministry of Economy to engrain our climate action agenda at the heart of our development.
“We recently launched the revised draft of our ground-breaking Climate Change Bill, which is now available online after we considered after the first round of consultations, hundreds of submissions from the public, our international partners, climate researchers, and within Government.”
