Disaster response and climate change a focus for Tonga parliament candidate Featured
Dr. Netatua Pelesikoti Taufatofua
27 November, 2019. Environmental scientist and parliamentary candidate Netatua Pelesikoti Taufatofua says she wants to use her knowledge to improve policies, legislation, and decision making in Tonga's Parliament.
Dr Taufatofua was a panelist at a breakfast with New Zealand MPs and Tongan women leaders in Tonga last month.
She told Daniela Maoate-Cox climate change is a particular focus as it impacts a wide range of policies from agriculture to infrastructure.
Pelesikoti was the director of the Climate Change Division at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme for seven and a half years.
In 2012, Pelesikoti became the first Pacific island woman to be a lead author of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report.
The by-election for Tongatapu 1 constituency will be held tomorrow Thursday 28 November 2019.
