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2019-01-25

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1. “We look forward to continuing to engage with the Security Council to begin to tackle the growing regional and international security consequences of climate change.”

   2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source

2. “And we call on the United Nations to lead and support national and regional efforts to tackle growing security challenges related to climate change. Fiji has a long and proud tradition of United Nations peacekeeping, which has given Fiji great exposure and training. We thank all the permanent members of the Security Council - the United States of America, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom - for helping us to develop our peacekeeping skills. Our Prime Minister has given his go-ahead to use that expertise to develop what is perhaps the world's first response unit that is fully capable of responding with speed, agility and knowledge to climate-induced disasters, in addition to peacekeeping. We acknowledge the assistance of the Australian Government in that regard. I am grateful for this opportunity to present Fiji's perspective.”

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3. “It is not just an issue for the Pacific. All of these effects will place far greater stress on individuals, communities and nation States competing for increasingly scarce resources. Extreme weather patterns make our economies and societies more fragile. We have seen time and again that, when economic and social fragility increase, our institutions suffer - they become more open to manipulation by extremists, corruption, international criminal syndicates and geopolitical opportunists. It makes our borders more porous. We ask the Security Council and the wider United Nations family to accept that climate-change-induced disasters will continue to fundamentally challenge institutions of national, regional and global governance.”

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4. “However, very soon, they will become forced migrations on a scale that will place severe stress on our societies and international arrangements. Climate change is leading to loss of arable land and the relocation of people, which will increase and lead to desertification, food and health insecurity and the depletion of our fish stocks and marine resources. It will lead to conflicts. Of course, the effects of climate change, which at the moment is more pronounced in some places than others, will nonetheless be a problem that will ultimately affect us all. We are all vulnerable. The effects of climate change are a threat to everyone, everywhere - from the disappearing coast lines ofBangladesh to the scorching heat drying out land across sub-Saharan Africa to the worsening flooding in low-lying cities in the United States.”

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5. “In 2014, the Fijian Government relocated its first coastal community to safer ground, and subsequently moved another two. Tragically, we are only at the start of the relocation process. Another 43 coastal communities will follow. We will manage those relocations the best we can, but I want to take this opportunity to stress to the Security Council that such relocations will not happen only domestically but across borders. I have highlighted this to the Security Council not to make any moral point but to stress that we are too uncomfortably close to a tipping point. We are still in a phase where domestic and cross-border relocations can be managed voluntarily, as Fiji has offered support to host some of our neighbours.”

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6. “The gap between extreme weather events is growing smaller. And a single extreme weather event like Tropical Cyclone Winston, which Fiji experienced in 2016 and from which we are still recovering, as it wiped off one third of the value of our gross domestic product in one single event, can also take away the steady progress that we have made in achieving the globally agreed goals. The severe consequences of extreme weather patterns in Fiji and across the world were highlighted repeatedly by our Prime Minister during Fiji's presidency of the twenty-third annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Relentless sea-level rise is a threat multiplier to our economies and societies.”

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7. “I am delighted to be here today to deliver this statement on behalf of the Fijian Prime Minister, Mr. Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, who could not be here due to pressing engagements at home. We thank the Dominican Republic for convening this open debate at the Security Council on the defining challenge of our times - preparing the international community to confront the growing security consequences arising from climate-change-induced natural disasters. Climate change has transformed our natural world. Extreme weather catastrophes - such as major floods, prolonged droughts, record-shattering heat waves and super-cyclones - and the frequency at which they occur tell us that the natural world has fundamentally changed. Once-in-a-lOO-years extreme-weather events are being experienced once every 10 years.”

   2019-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8451 (2019) · source