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Vishal Prasad

Vishal Prasad is the Director of Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC). Vishal is from Fiji and has been part of the International Court of Justice Climate Advisory Opinion campaign for more than 4 years, helping guide it from the classrooms of Vanuatu to the Hague and New York.

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    The Pacific needs more than words from Australia

    While Australia itself experiences climate impacts, and says the right words, it is increasingly clear that there is a contradiction between what Australia says about the Pacific and what it does. It is an unavoidable truth that Australia is one of the world's biggest exporters of the very thing that is drowning our islands: fossil fuels.

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    The Pacific needs more than words from Australia