BY LORETTA BRIGIDIA MANELE

An official from the Chinese Embassy in Honiara, Gu Wenlong says they will continue to try their best to work together with Pacific Island countries to enhance capacity to deal with climate change.

He highlighted this at the embassy last week during a handover ceremony of solar power system to remaining constituencies of the first 25 out of 50 constituencies in Solomon Islands to receive the equipment.

Wenlong expressed that recently, China for the third time, has hosted the Pacific Island Countries Foreign Ministers Meeting.

On this note, he said China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi’s new proposal includes working together with Pacific Island Countries to tackle climate change issues.

“Our Foreign Minister expressed our formal position to stand firmly with the Pacific island countries and reaffirm commitment to the global principle of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement,” he said.

Wenlong stressed that China will increase coordination with Pacific Island countries to build a fair and effective global climate governance system and will support Pacific Island countries through clean energy, low carbon infrastructure, disaster prevention and maritime environment protection.

“Over the next three years, China will implement more than 100 community-based climate projects and deepen maritime cooperation to support sustainable development,” Wenlong said.

He emphasised that working together with Pacific Island countries, they can gather even stronger efforts to help these countries tackle the climate change issue.

“And we can work together to build a shared future for both China and some of our Pacific Island countries,” he noted.

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