New Zealand : PM Ardern announces climate funding for Fiji | Pacific Islands Forum 2022
Channel: News 360 Tv
Date: 2022-07-12

The Government has announced $10 million for a seed bank in Fiji - the first funding from its $1.3 billion climate fund set up in October.

It comes as Pacific leaders, in Suva this week for the Pacific Islands Forum, urge New Zealand and Australia to step up action on climate change, which poses an existential threat to low-lying nations.

Also high on the agenda are rising geopolitical tensions, with China and United States vying for influence, and unity within the forum itself after Kiribati announced it was leaving.

Speaking from Fiji after the announcement, PM Jacinda Ardern said she had met Palau's President this morning, and discussed issues within Micronesia over the Pacific Islands Forum.

She had also spoken to the World Bank and IMF representatives on the global economy, and strains on it from Ukraine and Covid-19 lockdowns. She said energy resilience was a major issue.

On the issues around the Suva Agreement that prompted Kiribati to withdraw from the Forum this week, and over the Forum's decision not to appoint a Micronesian candidate as the Forum's secretary general, Ardern said she believed there was agreement by many countries to the Suva Agreement plan, which would see it go to Micronesia from 2024.

Ardern said she hoped Kiribati would re-enter the Forum, noting climate change in particular was an issue for it which was best addressed regionally.

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