Fiji Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Science and technology == Fiji is the only developing Pacific Island country with recent data for gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD), with the exception of [[Papua New Guinea]]. The national Bureau of Statistics cites a GERD/GDP ratio of 0.15% in 2012. Private-sector research and development (R&D) is negligible.<ref name=":03" /> Government investment in research and development tends to favour agriculture. In 2007, agriculture and primary production accounted for just under half of government expenditure on R&D, according to the Fijian National Bureau of Statistics. This share had risen to almost 60% by 2012. However, scientists publish much more in the field of geosciences and health than in agriculture.<ref name=":03" /> The rise in government spending on agricultural research has come to the detriment of research in education, which dropped to 35% of total research spending between 2007 and 2012. Government expenditure on health research has remained fairly constant, at about 5% of total government research spending, according to the Fijian National Bureau of Statistics.<ref name=":03">{{Free-content attribution| title = UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030| author = UNESCO| publisher = UNESCO Publishing| page numbers = 693β731| source =| documentURL = http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002354/235406e.pdf| licence statement URL =| license = CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 | 1 = {{Cite book|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002354/235406e.pdf|title=UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030|publisher=UNESCO|year=2015|isbn=978-92-3-100129-1|location=Paris|pages=693β731|access-date=17 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630025557/http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002354/235406e.pdf|archive-date=30 June 2017|url-status=live}} }}</ref> The Fijian Ministry of Health is seeking to develop endogenous research capacity through the ''Fiji Journal of Public Health'', which it launched in 2012. A new set of guidelines are now in place to help build endogenous capacity in health research through training and access to new technology.<ref name=":03" /> Fiji is also planning to diversify its energy sector through the use of [[Science and technology in Pacific Island countries|science and technology]]. In 2015, the [[Secretariat of the Pacific Community]] observed that "while Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Samoa are leading the way with large-scale hydropower projects, there is enormous potential to expand the deployment of other renewable energy options such as solar, wind, geothermal and ocean-based energy sources."<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.spc.int/edd/fr/section-01/energy-overview/energy?start=12|title=Pacific-first centre of excellence for renewable energy and energy efficiency takes shape|date=18 June 2015|work=Secretariat of Pacific Community press release|access-date=17 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318003633/http://www.spc.int/edd/fr/section-01/energy-overview/energy?start=12|archive-date=18 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, the Centre of Renewable Energy became operational at the [[University of Fiji]], with the assistance of the Renewable Energy in Pacific Island Countries Developing Skills and Capacity programme (EPIC) funded by the [[European Union]].<ref name=":03" /> From 2013 to 2017, the European Union funded the EPIC programme, which developed two master's programmes in renewable energy management, one at the University of Papua New Guinea and the other at the University of Fiji, both accredited in 2016.<ref name="Scott-Kemmis et al. 2021"/> In Fiji, 45 students have enrolled for the master's degree since the launch of the programme and a further 21 students have undertaken a related diploma programme introduced in 2019.<ref name="Scott-Kemmis et al. 2021"/> In 2020, the Regional Pacific Nationally Determined Contributions Hub Office in Fiji was launched to support climate change mitigation and adaptation. Pacific authors on the frontlines of climate change remain underrepresented in the scientific literature on the impact of disasters and on [[climate resilience]] strategies.<ref name="Scott-Kemmis et al. 2021">{{cite book |author1=Scott-Kemmis |author2=Intarakumnerd |author3=Rasiah |author4=Amaradasa |editor1-last=Schneegans |editor1-first=S. |editor2-last=Straza |editor2-first=T. |editor3-last=Lewis |editor3-first=J. |title=Southeast Asia and Oceania. In UNESCO Science Report: the Race Against Time for Smarter Development. |date=11 June 2021 |publisher=UNESCO |location=Paris |isbn=978-92-3-100450-6 |pages=674β715 |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000377433}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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