MP: Do more climate awareness

National

BY OLIVE SUKUN
ENVIRONMENT, Conservation and Climate Change Minister Wera Mori has urged the media to do more awareness on climate change.
He made the call during a donation presentation to the PNG Hearts for Australia Fire Appeal on Tuesday.
Mori said it would be good for the media to conduct awareness on the issue of climate change.
“It is important that the members of the media, when you are reporting, you are mindful that these will become realities between in the next 10 years,” he said. “What we are seeing in Australia is a direct consequence of climate change and don’t think Papua New Guinea is insulated from this threat.”
Mori encouraged the media to get the conversation started by taking the thoughts and concerns of state agencies and private sector to come up with ways they could help mitigate the effects of climate change.
“It’s not only a threat to our biodiversity but it will also threaten our national security in terms of our economy, food security and these are practical realities,” Mori said.
“We must not also forget that when these things happen, especially in the health sector in diseases, they tend to mutate and rearrange themselves, and we could have a lot of drug resistant diseases that will basically rise the consequence of death.”
Mori also added the impacts of climate change on the country’s climate, “in the past we had a very distinct dry and wet season but now we have pro-longed dry seasons and wet seasons.”