Sharing clean-tech goals with the Prime Minister

This week we had the honour of meeting Prime Minster of Tuvalu Feleti Teo and his party during his whistlestop tour of WA.

Tuvalu is located between Hawaii and Australia in the South Pacific Ocean and is comprised of nine islands of which four are reef islands and five are coral atolls. In August of this year, Australia enacted the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty which commits Australia to assist in times of natural disaster, pandemic or military aggression, provide visa pathways and ensures recognition of sovereignty regardless of the impact of climate-change related sea level rise.

The PM spoke passionately about the impacts of climate change on his country with predictions of up to 50% of the Tuvalu landmass predicted to be subject to regular flooding over the next 25 years.

As a net importer of clean-technology, Tuvalu deals with a range of issues related to isolated communities, equipment interoperability, access to trained technical specialists and the additional challenges of a harsh climate.

The visitors were particularly interested to hear about and learn from the breadth of energy transition activity taking place across the country, Powering Australia’s industry growth agenda, and visit our Cathode Precursor facility.