Fiji is the first small island developing country to hold the presidency of the COP meeting. The climate change conference, though held in Bonn, features various Fijian elements, the most noticeable one being the naming of one of the two conference zones after "Bula", a Fijian word for hello as well as a blessing of health and happiness.
Meanwhile, Fiji also aimed at interweaving the Fijian concept of "talanoa"- meaning storytelling and dialogue - into the climate negotiations and consultations, in the hope that there will be a process of inclusive, participatory and transparent dialogue.
Presiding over the opening ceremony on Monday, Frank Bainimarama, the prime minister of Fiji, said "The human suffering caused by intensifying hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, floods and threats to food security caused by climate change mean there is no time to waste".
"We must preserve the global consensus for decisive action enshrined in the Paris Agreement and aim for the most ambitious part of that target - to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees above that of the pre-industrial age," he said.
The Paris Agreement, achieved in 2017, aims to tackle global climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions and sets a global target of keeping the average temperature rise no higher than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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