Fiji has called on the United Nations to lead and support Pacific efforts to tackle growing security challenges around climate change.
Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum Photo: SUPPLIED
Addressing the UN Security Council in New York this week, Attorney-General Aiyaz Saiyed-Khaiyum said climate change was a threat - not only to Fiji - but the world.
He added the international community must confront the security consequences arising from climate change-induced natural disasters.
"The extreme weather catastrophies and their frequencies such as major floods, prolonged droughts, record-shattering heatwaves and super cyclones tell us that the natural world has fundamentally changed.
"The gap between extreme weather events is becoming less and less."