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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Fiji has told an Asian security summit that climate change is a bigger threat to the Pacific than military tensions.<\/b><\/p>\n

“Machine guns, fighter jets… are not our primary security concern. The single greatest threat to our very existence is climate change,” Fiji Defence Minister Inia Seruiratu said.<\/p>\n

He was addressing a summit in Singapore which has focused on China-US tensions and the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n

Cyclones have repeatedly battered Fiji and other low-lying Pacific countries.<\/p>\n

“It threatens our very hopes and dreams of prosperity. Human-induced, devastating climate change,” Mr Seruiratu told the forum, called the Shangri-La Dialogue.<\/p>\n

Floods in Fiji caused by tropic cyclones have displaced thousands of people in recent years and wrought economic havoc.<\/p>\n

Pacific states have urged advanced industrialised nations to do more to combat climate change.<\/p>\n

“Waves are crashing at our doorsteps, winds are battering our homes, we are being assaulted by this enemy from many angles,” Mr Seruiratu told delegates.<\/p>\n

The world is now about 1.2C warmer than it was in the 19th Century – the result of humans burning fossil fuels, which release greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide (CO2).<\/p>\n

But much attention has focused on China’s growing challenge to Western strategic interests in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

In April China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands, causing concern in Australia, New Zealand and the US. The details of it were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

Besides the Solomons, Pacific island nations have not so far reached consensus on China’s proposal for a new regional trade and security pact.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mozambique<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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