'We must redouble our efforts': Fiji's PM Bainimarama urges year of climate action in 2019

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Private sector has a key role in driving ambitious government action, COP23 president Frank Bainimarama warns in exclusive article for BusinessGreen

Businesses must step up pressure on political leaders in 2019 to take bold climate action if the world is to avert disastrous global warming, according to Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama. Writing...

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