The Fiji National University (FNU) is actively pursuing initiatives to make its campuses more environmentally friendly, with a strong focus on reducing carbon emissions.
Its vice-vhancellor Professor Unaisi Nabobo-Baba said “One of the things we’re doing is to make sure we get money for greening off campuses.”
She highlighted the university’s ongoing efforts, referencing a comprehensive report on the university’s environmental impact assessment completed in 2022.
“At FNU, the last report we did on the whole university set-up was in 2022.
“We’re very busy trying to get in money to also get students to plant mangroves.”
This initiative will kick off with the Natabua campus, which Professor Nabobo-Baba described as the university’s flagship location.
“The first is the best campus, our campus in Natabua. They told me they’re going to plant 500, I said, no, that’s my campus, you plant 1000, because the others will do 900 or 800.”
She said this effort would extend across all 17 of the university’s campuses, which would collaborate closely with local communities to plant mangroves in an effort to restore coastal ecosystems and combat climate change.
