CANBERRA: Fiji’s prime minister has used a state visit to urge Australia to take more ambitious actions to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
Voreqe Bainimarama said in a speech at the Australian Defense College on Monday that he hopes Fiji and Australia can “find more common ground” on climate change.
Fiji and other Pacific island nations are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Bainimarama’s visit comes as Australia’s center-left opposition mulls abandoning its policy of reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 45% below 2005 levels by 2030.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative coalition won a surprise third term in May elections with a commitment to reduce emissions by 26 percent to 28 percent in the same time frame.
Bainimarama met Morrison at Parliament House on Monday.
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Fijian leader urges Australia to do more on climate change
Fijian leader urges Australia to do more on climate change
- Voreqe Bainimarama said in a speech at the Australian Defense College on Monday that he hopes Fiji and Australia can “find more common ground” on climate change
Reformist PM candidate in Thailand pledges to form ‘the people’s government’
BANGKOK: The leader of Thailand’s reformist party, which was ahead in opinion polls, promised Sunday to form a government after casting his ballot.
Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut said he expected his People’s Party to “get the mandate from the people,” adding: “We promise to the people that we’ll form the people’s government.”
In its previous incarnation, the party came first at the last election in 2023 but was never able to take power and was later dissolved.
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