The second annual Pacific Future Environment Leaders Forum opened in Suva, Fiji, on Wednesday with 40 young professionals from around the Pacific region meeting together to examine the role of leadership in the fight to combat climate change, the PACNEWS reported.
The Pacific Future Environment Leaders Forum was a joint initiative of the University of the South Pacific (USP), Secretariat of the Pacific Environment Program (SPREP) and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
The forum aims to support participants in the process of examining what it means to be a good leader in the Pacific and how good leadership is vital to the process of countering the effects of climate change, a pressing issue for Pacific island countries and their communities.
"We want to see a cadre of motivated, caring and inspired individuals working together with their communities toward real and lasting changes in our region's conservation, natural resource management and overall development practices," the Suva-based regional news agency quoted Taholo Kami, director of IUCN's Regional Program for Oceania, as saying.
The forum also aims to provide participants with the skills and support that will empower these "future leaders" to build partnership and momentum within their communities to foster adaptation to climate change.
Source: Xinhua
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