Addressing the NDC implementation challenge to mitigate climate change

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit Fiji to participate in the India-Pacific Sustainable Development Conference, held in its capital, Suva. The conference, which saw the participation of leaders from India, Fiji and all the other South Pacific Island Nations, also gave an opportunity to interact and discuss issues around climate change mitigation.

Fiji, in many ways, is a frontline state when it comes to climate change mitigation. As a small island nation in the South Pacific, it is vulnerable to the some of the most apparent consequences of climate change. Rising sea levels, and unpredictable, often extremely violent climatic vagaries