Our climate champion Seruiratu visits Australia
Fiji’s COP23 High-Level Climate Champion, Inia Seruiratu is in Australia to discuss agriculture, disaster and climate change related issues with his Australian counterparts.
The Minister for Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management, started with the roundtable meeting in Canberra to discuss issues on agriculture.
In that meeting, he will meet officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR), Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian National University.
Following discussions on disaster management, Mr Seruiratu will tour the DFAT Crisis Centre, Attorney-General’s Department, Emergency Management Australia, Geoscience Australia and the Bureau of Meteorology.
The minister will also meet with Australian Member of Parliament (MP), Keith Pitt, Assistant Minister
The visit is an opportunity to create awareness and pursue support for mitigation and adaptive actions in response to climate change.
for Trade, Tourism and Investment and Senator for South Australia, Anne Ruston, Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources at the Parliament House in Canberra.
Tomorrow, Mr Seruiratu will visit the Bundaberg Research Farm to witness the use of techniques to improve resilience of fruit trees to natural disasters.
He will be in Brisbane on Friday to meet with Lynne Turner, General Manager, Strategic Policy and Planning at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland) and Bill Byrne MP, Queensland Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Economic Development. While in Brisbane, Mr Seruiratu will visit the University of Queensland to meet with the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences. The visit includes a tour to the Queensland Disaster Response Centre. He has acknowledged the Australian government for facilitating the visit.
The visit is an opportunity to create awareness and pursue support for mitigation and adaptive actions in response to climate change.