1972-87, civil servant in the government of Fiji, working in the fields of rural development and foreign affairs. 1978, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Suva; postings included Japan, Australia and Fiji; in Fiji, served as Permanent Secretary of Information and Permanent Secretary to the Governor-General; 1987, resigned from the civil service; 2010, resumed diplomatic duties. Formerly: Fiji’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York; 2013, chaired the United Nations’ largest negotiating bloc, the Group of 77 and China; 2014, served as President of the Executive Board of the UN Development Programme/UN Population Fund/UN Office for Programme Support; President of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly. October 2017, appointed UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean.
Overfishing, plastic pollution, falling oxygen levels and rising temperatures are deteriorating ocean health. We must change our ways if we are to save them, writes Peter Thomson, the U.N...
Global negotiations crucial to stopping over-fishing and guaranteeing the future of the ocean are coming to a head. Here's what needs to happen.
インドの海岸沿いに位置するオリッサ州。そこで農業を生活の糧としてきた女性たちは、災いから新たな機会を生み出してきました。
A lack of gender diversity is stifling the innovation, productivity and solutions women can offer for creating sustainable ocean livelihoods - and that has to change. It's time to highl...
In order to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and secure the livelihoods of millions across the developing world, harmful subsidies to large fleets must end by 2020.
In his message to G7 leaders, the United Nations Special Envoy for the Ocean says sending a strong signal on oceans will fast-track solutions to our planet's most pressing challenges: cli...
Our oceans are in decline, and human activity is to blame. To reverse this trend, we must move with purposeful steps. Here are five that could be taken immediately.
The ocean is in trouble. Its bill of health does not make for happy reading, and there is clear conclusion that human-based activities are the cause of the ocean’s decline.
