For Pacific island countries, everything is climate finance now.
That was the message from Neelesh Gounder, chief policy adviser to the Fijian government, at the Australasian Aid Conference in Canberra last month.
“Really speaking, from Pacific island countries’ perspective, everything under the sun is climate change now,” Gounder said during a panel discussion. “You could decide the whole budget is for climate change.”
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Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.
