Sentences with phrase «many small island nations»

Apologies, W.M., but my colleague Geoffrey wrote that headline, and he comes from that small island nation where people think collective nouns can take plural verbs.

Most of its foreign employees and manufacturing facilities were already located in the Caribbean, and Gildan's founder and then CEO Greg Chamandy explained in a press release that the small island nation was attractive because of its high literacy rate and excellent telecommunications system.

On September 18, 2017, the worst natural disaster in the history of Dominica ravaged this small island nation.

Malta, a small island nation in the Mediterranean, has fashioned itself as a leader in digital ledger technology regulation.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.

New Zealand is currently atop the Westgate Superbook odds list at 2/1, but the small island nation of Fiji sits right behind them at 9/4.

«They're all sort of taking a pragmatic approach,» Meyer said of the E.U., small island nation and least developed country submissions.

Small island nations, meanwhile, called for a series of meetings throughout the year, including a workshop on enhancing mitigation ambition at the United Nations» midyear climate meeting in Bonn, Germany, in May and a ministerial conference on the issue in New York at the U.N. General Assembly in September.

An experiment kicking off in a small island nation in the north - west of Europe later this year could point the way to an answer.

The concerns of small island nations will influence the meeting in a new way.

«I expect we'll see a lot at this COP that relates to the priorities of small island nations.»

This year's COP president is Fiji's prime minister, Frank Bainimarama — the first representative from a small island nation to lead the U.N. climate meeting.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

Plant and animal species will be pushed to extinction, drought and famine will increase, and some small island nations could be literally drowned by rising sea levels.

Welcome to the 23rd Convention of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-- led for the first time by a small Island nation, Fiji, but held in Germany.

He is originally from this small island nation off of the southern coast of India.

She completed her midwifery training in Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, at the main hospital in Port Vila.

A small island nation situated south of Thailand and Malaysia, smack dab between Malaysia and Indonesia.

Many small island nations have lived in co-existence with sharks for centuries, some even going as far as to make sharks part of their religion.

While several countries have occupied the small island nation, the Portuguese arrived in the 1500s, and East Timor remained under Portuguese colonial rule until 1975 when the Indonesians invaded.

In the winter months, this small island nation is transformed into a magical world of black lava fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of color.

Like Singapore Airlines, Icelandair serves a small island nation, but it has a big international reputation.

Taiwan is a small island nation that makes travellers feel welcome, especially first - time female solo travelers.

Once known as a quick stopover shopping mecca, the small island nation of Singapore is about more than luxury labels and bargain hunting.

Although the small island nation is just 90 miles south of Key West, Florida, it might as well have been halfway around the world for U.S. travelers.

Fresh from the small island nation of Britain, ZaphodX lands in the US with TheWrongCat and WPMarshall to cast games at PAX Prime for Uber Entertainment.

I live in a small island nation that is quite strongly affected by el ninos and la ninas with drought etc..

President Mohammed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, whose small island nation is existentially threatened by rising sea levles caused by climate change, has called on the world to set a target of returning the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere to 350

What makes this process complicated is that you have small island nations who are about to disappear because of sea level rise, you have oil producers who are legitimately concerned about the future of their economy, you have major industrialized nations who are afraid they will lose jobs, and you have major developing countries whose overriding concern is economic growth and poverty eradication.

But sanctuaries are now established as a critical tool for reducing shark mortality, and in the South Pacific, the combined efforts of small island nations are adding up to an enormous advance in marine conservation.

Meanwhile, small islands nations are watching their islands literally disappear while the big dogs argue.

Indeed, analysis by my colleague has shown that such commitments only get us 65 percent of the reductions we need to meet the 2 degrees C goal, to say nothing of the 1.5 degrees C goal that Tuvalu and other small island nation states have pushed for.

An Auckland University researcher has offered new hope to the myriad small island nations in the Pacific which have loudly complained their low - lying atolls will drown as global warming boosts sea levels.

Second, to help the most vulnerable countries including small island nations adapt to climate change by building barriers against rising seas or developing drought - resilient crops.

Furthermore, most of the small island nations that are projected to experience future dryness do not emit greenhouse gases at the levels that continental nations do.

But for other nations, particularly small island nations popular among travelers, including the footprint of international visitors makes a big difference.

-LSB-...] leak of a «secret» Danish negotiating text seems to be fizzling down (see our previous post), this was most likely due in some part to a small island nation now famous here in Copenhagen.

«Only by doing that do I strongly believe that sustainable management of coastal ecosystems and small island nations can be fully protected,» he said.

Small island nations, like Saint Lucia and Barbados in the Caribbean, are extremely vulnerable to a warming climate, yet many rely on an industry that's a big driver of global carbon emissions.

On Friday, Victoria met with the Thoriq Ibrahim, Minister of Environment and Energy for the small island nation of the Maldives, to learn first - hand how climate change is impacting its people.

I was facing the fall of a small island nation of 33 atolls spread out in the South Pacific.

Kiribati aroused my curiosity after I'd read an interview with Anote Tong, the president of the small island nation, who warned about his country becoming uninhabitable due to the rising sea levels and increasing salination.

Small island nations contribute the least to climate change, yet are feeling the greatest impact of its consequences.

«Naturally some smart politicians and speculators in the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and in the small island nations, understand that they can profit from the Paris Treaty by gaming the rules on things like carbon credits, or milking the green fund for «climate compensation» or «green energy technology».

This guidance document showcases how the world's smallest island nations are now using new climate prediction tools to boost their economies and enhance livelihoods in areas as diverse as renewable energy, agriculture and national economic planning.

At the same time, small island nations are struggling for their very existence, hoping to hold on to their cultural and social histories.

In the city of Padang, Indonesia, for example, residents — like other inhabitants of archipelagos and small island nations — worry about rising sea levels and powerful storms.

We think of it as physically distant — involving polar bears, or small island nations we've never visited.

He does not speak alone: this fall, some 50 countries, including a number of small island nations along with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the European Union, are planning to put a resolution before the U.N. General Assembly requesting that the U.N. Security Council address «the threat posed by climate change to international peace and security.»

With small island nations in peril, these days President Gayoom evokes the vision of a United Nations where «name plates are gone; seats are empty.»