Sentences with phrase «by small island states»

Tuvalu's position is backed by the small island states (AOSIS) and some African nations and up to this point, all members of the Group of 77, the now 130 - country block of developing nations.

First emerging decades ago as a relatively obscure plea by small island states, loss and damage has now gained recognition as the third pillar of international climate policy, after mitigation and adaptation.

It was a remarkable triumph for a long campaign by the small island states, proving that even tiny nations, armed with a powerful moral case, can change the world.

Not exact matches

The summit is being hosted by Singapore, an island state of 5.6 million people that is the smallest in the 10 - member bloc, but the wealthiest and most westernised.

Lagos State is the smallest entity of the Nigerian Federation by land size; a small string of lagoonal islands connected by bridges to an increasingly packed mainland.

Calling the idea offered by the speaker during her State of the City speech last week «interesting and intriguing,» Cuomo said the island jail was a dated facility, and that the smaller, more technically advanced jails that can be built today would be «more appropriate.»

The state also will build on a smaller Suffolk program by testing for contaminants at all 65 mulching facilities on Long Island, and will issue for the first time common - sense regulations for those facilities.

The Oysterponds school district in Orient, one of the smallest schools in the state, is the only district on Long Island that failed to have its teacher evaluation plan approved by Thursday's deadline and is expected to lose some state aid as a result of not having an approved - plan in place.

If global warming permanently crosses that threshold, it will likely cause small island states to be swallowed by the sea, coral to die and heat waves to become more common and severe.

It refused, for example, to back the call of scientists in Toronto in 1988 for carbon dioxide emissions to be cut by 20 per cent by 2005 — a target tabled in Berlin by the Alliance of Small Island States.

On the other end of the spectrum, the European Union, the Alliance of Small Island States and the group of least developed countries, led by Gambia, offered a spectrum of practical ideas for pushing countries to do more.

A multi-partner initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that supports climate resilience, food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable management of living aquatic resources in coastal communities, especially in small island developing states.

The causeway heading into South Hero Island, Vermont, which ranked 10th on LendEDU's list.Vermont is the second least populous state in the U.S., in addition to being the sixth smallest by area.

San Miguel Island, together with numerous small islets around it, is defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block 3010, Block Group 3, Census Tract 29.10 of Santa Barbara County, California.

Nusa Penida is a small island located just off the south - east coast of Bali that largely remains in its natural state, relatively untouched by tourism development.

The charmingly small city, 90 miles north of Los Angeles, hugs both the beaches and Highway 101 (and also offers easy access by train): Don't miss sandy stretches such as Refugio State Beach, Summerland County State Park (with views of Channel Islands National Park), or Butterfly Beach, which sits across from the Four Seasons The Biltmore Santa Barbara.

Art Basel Miami Beach, with GAVLAK Los Angeles / Palm Beach, Miami, FL (catalogue) Ten Year Anniversary Show, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL and Los Angeles, CA Re (a) d, curated by Ryan Steadman, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY The Valentine's Day Cardiovascular, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Puente, KINMAN, London, UK 2014 The Go Between: Selections from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy Art Basel Miami Beach, Gavlak booth, Miami Beach, FL 100 Painters of Tomorrow: New York Exhibition, One Art Space, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA The Armory Show, Gavlak Booth, Pier 94, New York NY Painting: A Love Story, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue) 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach, Gavlak Booth, Miami Beach, FL (catalogue) This is the Story of America, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy Rema Hort Mann Foundation LA Arts Initiative Auction, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Acid Summer, Curated by Matthew Craven, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY All Fucking Summer, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL Whitney Museum Art Party Benefit Auction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY MiArt2013, Gavlak Booth, Milan, Italy The Armory Show, Focus: USA, Gavlak Booth # 908, New York, NY (catalogue) Art Rotterdam, Office Baroque Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands My Echo, My Shadow, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL 39 Great Jones, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (catalogue) 239 Days, School of Visual Arts MFA Alumni Show, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY 2012 News From Chicago and New York City, Curated by Henning Strassburger, Fiebach Minninger, Cologne, Germany Time, After Time, Curated by ARTNESIA, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK (catalogue) SUNY New Paltz Alumni Show, Dosky Projects, Long Island City, NY What's the Point, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY It's a Small, Small World, Curated by Marilyn Minter and Organized by Hennessy Youngman, Family Business, New York, NY The Virgins Show, Curated by Marilyn Minter, Family Business, New York, NY Just the Tip, SVA MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Organized in Collaboration with Mike Egan, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) 2011 MFA Fine Arts Fall Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Sentimental Education, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL Things Fall Apart, Curated by Asya Geisberg, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY Abstract Means, Curated by Richard Brooks, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY MFA Fine Arts Spring Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Celebrating 15 Years: Young Artists at Heckscher, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY College Art Association New York MFA Exhibition, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York, NY Vuu Collective W / S 2011 Show, K&K Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010 MFA Fine Arts Winter Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Emerge to be Seen, Westside Gallery, New York, NY Marks That Matter, Juried by Gillian Jagger, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY The New, Art (That Matters), Oyster Bay, NY New York Art & Culture Exhibition Series, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY 2009 No Girls Allowed: BFA Thesis Exhibition, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Best of Show: 2009 Best of SUNY Exhibition, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 2008 Crit 3: Work from Students and Alumni of SUNY New Paltz, Curated by Kathy Goodell, Spencertown Art Gallery, Spencertown, NY Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Smiley Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY Three, Smiley Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY SPECIAL PROJECTS 2013 Shinola x Andrew Brischler, Installation & Capsule Collection, Tribeca Flagship Store, New York, NY Converse Footwear for Publicolor, organized by Grey Area COLLECTIONS Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL AWARDS AND HONORS 2015 Painting Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts

CA Spectral Hues, curated by Sharon Bliss, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA Building the Art House, curated by Katherine Connell and Emma Spertus, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Big Idea, curated by Sue Collier, Leslie Ford, Jack McWhorter and JoAnn Rothschild, The Painting Center, New York, NY Along the Lines, Harrington Gallery, curated by Julie Finegan, Pleasanton, CA 2016 Plus +1, Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Group show, November - December 2016, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX Palette, curated by Kelly Inouye, Theodora Mauro and Lisa Solomon, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2015 Therely Bare Redux, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN Therely Bare Redux, Clara M Eagle Gallery, University of Tennessee, Murray Territory of Abstraction, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Out of Storage, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA Art Market San Francisco, (with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary), San Francisco, CA The Airplane Show, B Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA 2014 un.bound.ed, curated by Brent Hallard and Don Voisine, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (edition) DOPPLER SHIFT, curated by Mary Birmingham, Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ (catalogue) The Intuitionists, curated by Heather Hart, Steffani Jemison & Jina Valentine, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (catalogue) First / Last, curated by Heather Phillips, Park Life, San Francisco, CA 2013 DOPPLER, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Generations IX: The Red / Pink Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Made In Paint: 2012 Artists in Residence, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY Rituals of Exhibition II, Light Space Project, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand Rituals of Exhibition, curated by Giles Ryder and Gilbert Hsiao, Don't Be Selfish, Phayao, Thailand POSTE CONCRET II, curated by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR 2012 Soft Luminosity, curated by Guido Winkler and Iemke van Dijk, IS Projects, Leiden, NL (edition) Art On Paper 2012, The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (brochure) Islands of Order in a Sea of Chaos, curated by Ruth van Veenen, de Vishal, Haarlem, NL Doppler Stop, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue) Doppler Stop, Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL Doppler Stop, Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE Doppler Stop, trenutak.39 / Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HR Trade - O - Mat, curated by Kathryn Kenworth, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions, curated by Brent Hallard, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY POSTE CONCRET I, curated by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR BYO, IS Projects, Leiden, NL Stop & Go Rides Again, touring exhibition curated by Sarah Klein, Z Space, San Francisco, US; Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL; Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE; Fluctuating Images / Interventionstraum, Stuttgart, DE An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (catalogue) ReTrace, Cesar Chavez Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2010 TOUCH, curated by Brent Hallard, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR (catalogue) Factor XX, curated by Jenny Balisle, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA (catalogue) The Rule of Typical Things, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 TRANS: form color, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA (brochure) The Grid, curated by JT Kirkland, MP5, Portland, OR 2008 Calculated Color, curated by Jane Lincoln, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA (brochure) The Space Between, curated by Cathy Kimbell, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (brochure) Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (also 2005, 2004) TOUCH, curated by Brent Hallard, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan Out of the Fog: Artists from Headlands Center for the Arts, curated by Dianne Romaine and Holly Blake, Art works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2007 TRANS: Abstraktion, Weltraum, Munich, DE (brochure) 7 - 07 Hung Liu curates 7 Women Artists in the year of the Pig, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (brochure) Bay Area Currents, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Systems & Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Still, Contemporary Quarterly, curated by Chandra Cerrito, www.ContemporaryQuarterly.com (brochure) 2006 Suitcase: Bus - Dori, curated by Brent Hallard, Tokyo, JP Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL microcosm, curated by Victoria Wagner, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (brochure) Sketch, The Memorial Union Gallery, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 2005 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2004 and now they aren't.

Born in 1958, Chicago, IL Recent locations include Los Angeles; New Orleans; Baja California, Mexico; San Juan Islands, British Columbia and Portland SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Loose Lips Do Sink Ships, Laurel Gitlen, New York Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium (forthcoming) 2010 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 2009 Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris Laurel Gitlen, New York Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium 2008 State of the Union, Small A Projects, Portland, OR 2007 White Columns, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 Sex Drive, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (curated by Stuart Horodner) 2010 Bienniale de Belleville, Paris 2009 Sign of the Times, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; Galerie de L'UQAM, Montreal, Canada; Military Museums, Calgary, Canada (curated by Amanda Cachia) Salvador Diaz Gallery, Madrid (curated by Rikrit Tiravanija) 2008 Say Goodbye To..., Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 2008 Altoids Award, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Ambivalent Figuration, Samson Projects, Boston, MA 2007 Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA London (with Harrell Fletcher) BIBLIOGRAPHY Free Speech Zone: Michael Patterson - Carver, monograph edited by Harrell Fletcher, with contributions by Fletcher, Matthew Higgs, and an introduction by Michael Patterson - Carver, (London: Four Corners Books, 2010) Cachia, Amanda, Diabolique, exhibition catalogue, (Dunlop Art Gallery, 2009) Dexter, Emma, «Michael Patterson - Carver» in 60: Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future, edited by Lucas Dietrich, (London: Thames and Hudson, 2009) «Michael Patterson - Carver,» (review) The New Yorker, October 19, 2009 Anne Doran, «Michael Patterson - Carver,» (review) Time Out New York issue 732, October 8 - 14, 2009 Sanders, Gabriel, «Trader Joe's Treasure,» The Forward, July 2008 Yim, Su - jin, «Political Artist Moves in Higher Circles» (Michael Patterson - Carver), The Oregonian, April 2008 Vogel, Carol, «Inside Art: Altoids Award» (Michael Patterson - Carver), New York Times, March 2008 Yim, Su - jin, «An Artist, Discovered» (Michael Patterson - Carver), The Oregonian, August 2007 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS American Folk Art Museum, New York City of Paris Permanent Collection FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France Museum of Everything, London

First there were there was a round of high fives and thumbs up exchanged among delegates from small island states as the chairman of the conference announced that the money in the long planned adaptation fund would be controlled by the states themselves, rather than doled out via some international organization that could monitor the money, like the older Global Environmental Facility.

Others suggest that it was the European Union that backed down by agreeing to a statement lacking any specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in sharp contrast to their stated position and their promises to the developing countries and especially to the small island states.

In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's mStates in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's mstates), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.

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.

This activity report presents a record of the Seminar held from 27 to 29 July 2009 in Paris, focused on the role of education in addressing climate change, linking the local, regional and global contexts with particular emphasis on the challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

«We must attack this problem with a sense of urgency and ambition and quite frankly we are not seeing the level of urgency and ambition from the U.S.,» said Selwin Hart, a delegate from Barbados who was speaking for the Alliance of Small Island States, who face their entire nations sinking beneath rising seas caused by global warming.

According to the now - infamous Stern report, 200 million people could be permanently displaced by 2050, mostly due to rising sea levels (the Small Island Developing States (SIDS), those in the Arctic, and those living in coastal cities and floodplains).

He said the government of India welcomes the proposal made by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the mobilization of at least US$ 100 billion by 2020 for supporting climate change action in developing countries and the priority Brown has given to the needs of least developed countries and small island developing states.

Small island states and the least developed countries have called for warming to be brought back to below 1.5 by 2100.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Small island developing states, from the Pacific to the Caribbean, say they are suffering ever more from rising sea levels and storm surges whipped up by cyclones.

Poor countries, including small island states and the least developed countries, were looking for a decision to create an international mechanism to address losses and damages caused by climate change.

The idea was to provide science synthesis for small island state and least developed countries, and to fill the gap that we saw out there where we felt these countries were essentially being outmanoeuvred by larger countries simply because they didn't have access to state - of - the - art science.

For instance, if responsibility for reducing GHG emissions is allocated in part on historic emissions, the largest portion of historic responsibility has to be attributed to the United States with 25.6 % of historic emissions, followed by the 15 European Union Countries at 15.9 %, OPEC countries at 7.4 %, Russia at 7.3 %, China at 6.4 %, Brazil at 5.2 %, the 76 countries of AOSIS (Association of Small Island States) and the LDC (Least Developed Countries) at 4.1 %, Japan at 2.8 %, and finally India with next to no responsibility at 0.3 %.

He pointed out that although China's «basic circumstances» are fundamentally different from small island states, all developing countries are unified in their commitment to the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR, we will now officially keep track of how many times it's mentioned by a member of the Chinese delegation).

It condemns many small island states and other developing countries by encouraging a 2 degree celsius world above pre-industrial levels.

This is at its most extreme in small island states, such as Vanuatu, and is being exacerbated by climate change.

They provide scientific evidence to support the call by vulnerable countries, such as the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States, that a 1.5 C warming limit would substantially reduce the impacts of climate change.»

This was picked up on by some select media sources, but for the most part, the Great Escape was in the works, its trapdoor built and opened wide by mainstream media messaging that the EU was the «bigger man» and «saviour» of the small island states.

In a discussion scheduled for Friday, small island states will push to include research on the damages caused by climate change.

With this background the grouping of Small Island States, currently led by Fiji, is starting a new conversation between governments and society, called the Talanoa Dialogue.

As she explained in a recent article for Climate Home, Thomas's research shows small island states are hit increasingly hard by tropical storms but don't have robust data to measure the influence of climate change on specific events.

This report was drafted by a working group of United Nations entities, the World Bank, and other stakeholders to suggest a common understanding of the blue economy; to highlight the importance of such an approach, particularly for small island developing states and coastal least developed countries; to identify some of the key challenges its adoption poses; and to suggest some broad next steps that are called for in order to ensure its implementation.

This analytical report highlights the key climate and development challenges faced by African Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

A more suitable target, some say, would be to aim for zero emissions from shipping as early as 2035, as was demanded by the Marshall Islands and several other small island states.

Enhanced action and international cooperation on adaptation is urgently required to enstue the implementation of the Convention by enabling and supporting the implementation of adaptation actions aimed at reducing vulnerability and building resilience in developing countries, especially in those that are particularly vulnerable, especially least developed countries, small island developing States and tiuther taking into account the need of countries in Africa affected by drought, desertification and floods.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Next week, Barbados — a small island, developing state threatened by climate - induced sea level rise — will host a critical board meeting of the United Nations Green Climate Fund.

Small island states are leading the world, pledging to cut their emissions by a collective 45 % by 2030.

The court documents state that the deposit was made by a series of payments, including a small cash payment in India, without obtaining any receipt, and two transfers to the account of a British Virgin Islands - based company held at Hong Kong bank.

Though it is one of the smallest states by area, Rhode Island is the second most densely populated state in the nation.

To put that into perspective, if it was all located in one place, it would be roughly the size of West Virginia or nearly as big as the five smallest states (Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New Hampshire), measured by total area, combined.