UN General Assembly
1995

States such as Fiji, vulnerable as we are to rising sea levels, hurricanes and other phenomena associated with a worst- case scenario of climate change, politics has little to do with the reality that our physical survival would be affected if immediate action to remedy ailments in the world climate system were not taken. In this context, Fiji welcomes the commencement of negotiations on the Berlin mandate to strengthen the Framework Convention on Climate Change, which got under way in Geneva last August. At the first Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Fiji had expressed its regret that the outcome of the Conference was minimal. Fiji continues to believe that the protocol of the Alliance of Small Island States should form the basis of any new instrument aimed at strengthening the climate Convention. Further, at the present time, no new commitments should attach to developing countries, given that their overriding priority will remain the combatting of poverty. Recognizing that the present health of the world’s climate system is a result of the detrimental patterns of production and consumption of