The Masters in Renewable Energy Management (MREM) being offered by the University of Fiji would help in human capacity building towards the implementation of renewable energy, which is an essential tool for climate change mitigation, says Dr Anirudh Singh, Coordinator of the MREM programme at UniFIji.
“If you want to implement renewable energy, you ought to have the capacity to do it and one the aspects of capacity building is human capacity building. This is where the MREM programme has taken a lead as it trains people to participate in these projects,” said Dr Singh.
He further explained that the programme ties in well with the outcomes of COP21.
“The outcomes of COP21 are that the world has agreed to support the poorer nations to carry out their climate change mitigation activities and one of the main methods for climate change mitigation is implementation of renewable energy,” he stated.
He also said the MREM programme, which is one of its kind in Fiji, came at a very suitable time when Fiji held the presidency of COP23.
“MREM course comes in at a very opportune time; this is something that we ought to be proud about that UniFiji has actually chosen to offer this course at this time of the history of the country,” he reinforced.
He further explained that students who finished the MREM programme would be working at the cutting edge of Fiji’s socio-economic development.
Meanwhile he said that the student numbers for the course had exceeded expectations.
Registrations are still open for the programme till the end of February but only a limited number of additional students will be admitted this semester.
