Fijian Minister: Let’s do it the pacific way

Speaking at the Joint Meeting of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management & the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable Fijian Minister for National Disaster Management, Inia Seruiratu said the way forward to addressing climate change and disaster risk management in the region is to do it the ‘pacific way’, reports Solomon Star. ‘We need to understand the issues first before we can effectively respond,’ Seruiratu says. ‘We should be customizing best-practices from the world over and in the Pacific to suit our local context.’