Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama outlined Fiji’s first ever Green Growth Framework, describing it as central to the Government’s national development program.
While leading a high level panel discussion of Pacific leaders on sustainable development during his visit to Bangkok for a meeting of the United Nations Regional Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bainimarama said framework would be a cornerstone of both the five year and 20 year national plans that are currently being developed to take Fiji forward.
Bainimarama says Fiji needs a new development model that is more holistic, integrated, inclusive and sustainable.
He adds we need a new approach that links economic growth and environmental protection to build a green economy in which the driver of growth is more intelligent, more effective and has the common interests of all citizens in mind.
Bainimarama stresses the importance for member states to be more smarter in the way we exploit our natural resources whether it is our fish at sea or our forests on land.
The Prime Minister highlighted the failure of the industrialized nations to curb their carbon emissions and implored them to give Pacific Islanders a fighting chance against the rising sea levels caused by those emissions.
Bainimarama was congratulated for showing the necessary political will to produce an ambitious and forward‑looking Green Growth Framework for Fiji and for his impending appointment today as Chair of the 71st Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
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