‘What is your backup?’: Niue's premier says complete phase out of fossil fuels 'very hard'
Niue has nearly exhausted its climate mitigation options and its focus now is on adaptation, the island's Premier Dalton Tagelagi says. Tagelagi told RNZ Pacific that Niue's contribution to global warming is one-thousandth of a percentage point (0.0001%) and they are already halfway to achieving their renewable energy target of 80 percent renewable by 2025.
He said Niue has already surpassed the United Nation's global pact to protect 30 percent of its oceans biodiversity by 2030.
But he said his island was still not protected from the negative impacts of climate change.
"What else can we do to mitigate? We've gotten past that. We met most of the Sustainable Development Goals, we've met the biodiversity goals.
"We [are] in the conservation efforts now with our oceans conservation commitments to protect 40 percent - we have gone far beyond the call of 30x30 by 2030.
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