Fiji In the Wake of IPCC Findings
Andrew Irvin, Project Officer for Micronesia Centre for Sustainable Transport The International Panel on Climate Change released its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) August 9th, drawing grave conclusions while outlining an increasingly limited set of trajectories to avoid scenarios resulting in catastrophic temperature increases. Rapid decarbonisation is now required even to slow the effects of what is now recognized as inevitable change , including sea level rise which will continue for decades (or perhaps centuries) after net zero GHG emission levels are reached. As a nation dependent upon its maritime industry and shipping services, Fiji has the opportunity to join its island neighbours in leading the global call for shipping decarbonisation in excess of the current, insufficient global targets. Shipping sector In light of the IPCC AR6, and in recognition of the fact that if the shipping sector were nation, it’d be the sixth largest emitter in the world , the Marshall Islands ...