An energy expert with the United Nation's Samoa Office said
climate change should not be viewed nor addressed as merely an
environmental issue, the Islands Business online reported on
Thursday. "Climate change has enormous implications on human
development issues," Thomas Jensen told reporters at the Pacific
climate change round-table currently underway in Apia, Samoa.
"We are not going to solve anything if we just treat it as an
environmental issue. That should be the starting point, to have
a real impact we must acknowledge the fact that climate change
is not an environmental issue alone, but it's a human issue, a
development issue," he said. According to Jensen who oversees
renewable energy program of the United Nations Development
Program in the Pacific, the issue of climate change impacted
economic, social, cultural, health, infrastructure, energy,
poverty reduction, sustainable development aspects of a nation.
So leaving climate change only for a department of environment
to tackle would be pointless an