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The story centered on Fiji's efforts to combat climate change and how it is trying to access climate finance. Ro Filipe Tuisawau, Minister of Public Works for Fiji, said the island's goal is to hit all renewables by 2035. Fiji has financially viable projects in the mix and the minister said, "there must be a business case for them."
The economy of Fiji is one of the most developed among the Pacific islands. Nevertheless, Fiji is a developing country endowed with forest, mineral and fish resources. The country has a large agriculture sector heavily based on subsistence agriculture. Sugar exports and the tourism industry are the main sources of foreign exchange. There are ...
The story centered on Fiji's efforts to combat climate change and how it is trying to access climate finance. Ro Filipe Tuisawau, Minister of Public Works for Fiji, said the island's goal is to hit all renewables by 2035. Fiji has financially viable projects in the mix and the minister said, "there must be a business case for them."
Community groups across the Pacific Islands, one of the world's most aid reliant regions, are scrambling to find ways to pay staff after U.S. funding was frozen, organisations in Fiji said.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka raised concerns that the mass deportation of criminals from the U.S. posed a safety risk to Pacific Island states in a meeting with the ...
Ahead of the cyclone season, the FMS, the BoM, Météo-France, New Zealand's MetService and National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and various other Pacific Meteorological services, all contributed towards the Island Climate Update tropical cyclone outlook that was released during October 2015.
Before World War II, weather observations in Fiji were the responsibility of the harbour board and limited to recording various meteorological details at various locations around the island nation. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the 1939 Defence Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Fiji's capital Suva was identified as the location of an upgraded ...
The main impacts of Joni in Fiji were confined to the Western Division, with the islands of Yasawa, Mamanuca, Viti Levu, Kadavu and Vatulele being the worst affected areas. Damages in both Tuvalu and Fiji were exacerbated a month later by Severe Tropical Cyclones Nina and Kina interacting with each other. Due to the impact of this system, the ...