AG launches 2nd round of consultations on the National Climate Change Bill

AG launches 2nd round of consultations on the National Climate Change Bill

By Shanil Singh
Friday 20/11/2020
Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.

Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has launched the second round of the public consultations on the revised draft of the National Climate Change Bill.

Sayed-Khaiyum says since the last round of consultations held from September to December last year, the world has been forced to combat a further shared trauma due to COVID-19.

Sayed-Khaiyum says the pandemic has allowed them to foresee what sort of disruption might await them if climate change accelerates.

He says the revised draft of the Climate Change Bill is a result of an effort that has been refocused by the confluence of threats that now bare down upon us.

The Attorney General says in this draft they considered views from hundreds of submissions received from the public through social media platforms, formal feedback from international partners, inputs from cross government consultation and findings from research.

He says while they have succeeded in keeping COVID-19 out of Fiji, the country has suffered economic and societal disruptions.

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