Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says more Fijian will be forced to leave their homes to escape stronger storms, rising seas, and swelling rivers brought by climate change every year.
While speaking at the opening of the Virtual Pacific Regional Consultation on Internal Displacement, Bainimarama says it is a crisis we did not cause but we will have to bear the consequences.
He says they are currently focussing on relocating vulnerable Fijian communities, with 43 already identified.
The Prime Minister says they have relocated six communities so far and the number will continue to rise.
He also says some of our low lying neighbours face an existential threat and the displacement of their people won’t be internal but external.
Bainimarama says this is why Fiji has offered permanent settlement to the citizens of Tuvalu and Kiribati should they need it.
