Fiji, Nov. 6 -- Fiji's Permanent Secretary for the Environment and Climate Change, Dr Sivendra Michael, issued a clear call last week for global accountability at the biodiversity COP16, urging world leaders to deliver on promises to reverse biodiversity loss or risk leaving a legacy of "inter-generational regret."
Speaking on behalf of Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, Dr Michael commended Colombia's hosting of COP16 in Cali, but didn't mince words about the task at hand.
"We are here to disrupt humankind's destruction of nature," he said. "The trends we are witnessing are unsustainable and will only lead to catastrophe unless we act decisively and with urgency."
Fiji, like many other Pacific Island nations, is feeling the impacts ...