1972-87, civil servant in the government of Fiji, working in the fields of rural development and foreign affairs. 1978, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Suva; postings included Japan, Australia and Fiji; in Fiji, served as Permanent Secretary of Information and Permanent Secretary to the Governor-General; 1987, resigned from the civil service; 2010, resumed diplomatic duties. Formerly: Fiji’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York; 2013, chaired the United Nations’ largest negotiating bloc, the Group of 77 and China; 2014, served as President of the Executive Board of the UN Development Programme/UN Population Fund/UN Office for Programme Support; President of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly. October 2017, appointed UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean.
Restoring ocean health is not just about verdant mangrove forests, thriving fish stocks and pristine blue waters, although these are all vitally important in their own right. Enabling peo...
Este artículo apareció por primera vez en China Dialogue Ocean en inglés.
This article first appeared on China Dialogue Ocean.
I have often said that we cannot have a healthy planet without a healthy ocean; therefore I’m glad to see this mantra is gaining traction. On 29 September 2021, UN Secretary-General Antón...
海洋環境の悪化を食い止めるために活動するグローバルコミュニティは、今年11月に、英国グラスゴーで開催予定のCOP26（国連気候変動枠組条約第26回締約国会議）に期待をかけています。気候変動の緩和と適応のために海洋が担う重要な貢献が必須検討事項となること、そして海洋と気候の関係が示す課題への取り組みを強化しリソースを拡大することが、COP26の結論に盛り込まれます。
The hope of the global community working to reverse the ongoing decline in the ocean’s health is that the ocean’s critical contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation will b...
Fish in the ocean can seem a world away from the real-life struggles of people on land. But every year, $22 billion in public funds are being spent to subsidize overfishing, which puts fo...
If there were ever a tide in human affairs that should be taken, this is it. A pitiless pandemic has befallen us, bringing sadness and sacrifice around the world. But when we raise our ey...
This article originally appeared in TIME.
Sustainable Development Goal 14.6 is the UN’s clarion call for harmful fisheries subsidies to be prohibited by 2020, a task of global importance assigned to the World Trade Organization (...
インドの海岸沿いに位置するオリッサ州。そこで農業を生活の糧としてきた女性たちは、災いから新たな機会を生み出してきました。
In the coastal state of Odisha, India, women farmers have turned a crisis into an opportunity.
The name of our planet is misleading. We call it Earth, yet over 70% of its surface is covered by the ocean. Sometimes we forget how essential the ocean is for the water we drink, the air...
Seven of the world’s most powerful heads of state are meeting in Quebec. Fortunately, their host Canada has put saving the ocean at the heart of their discussions. I believe this meeting ...
The ocean has shaped my life, from my beginnings in the outer islands of Fiji to my appointment last year as the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy for the ocean.
