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Climate Change The Fiji Islands Response
Climate ChangeThe Fiji Islands ResponseFiji s First National CommunicationUnder the Framework Convention onClimate Change2005 Government of the Fiji IslandsFiji s Initial National Communicationpreparedby thePacific Islands Climate Change Assistance Programme(PICCAP) & Fiji Country TeamDepartment of Box 2131 Government BuildingsSuva, Fiji islandsTelephone: (679) 3311 699, Facsimile: (679) 3312 879 Email: 2005 PICCAP Fiji Islands iFOREWORD Global warming has been linked to the large injection of anthropogenic emissions of Greenhouse Gases into the atmosphere, resulting in an imbalance in the world s Climate system. Observations reveal that the earth is getting warmer and mean global temperature keeps on rising annually. World Leaders and Decision-Makers signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Earth Summit in 1992, Rio de Janeiro, in a bid to combat the global warming phenomenon. Fiji is a Party to this Convention having ratified it in 1993.
Impacts on the Suva Peninsula and Rewa Delta are likely to include: • Raised water tables in low-lying areas, • Reduced efficacy of in-ground septic systems and inundation of sewer pumping systems, • Overtopping of the shore protection in downtown Suva during the more extreme wave events under a 25 cm SLR scenario,
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