Sentences with phrase «for small island nations»

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.

For a small island nation like Iceland, the retention of culture is a key concern.

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It's also a place where there's the potential for small scale regional conflict — political at this time — such as between China, Vietnam and Japan over the Spratley islands in the South China Sea and the known unknowns around political instability in nuclear - armed Pakistan and that nation's relationship to its nuclear - armed neighbour, India.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.

For the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GFor the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state Gfor the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GDP.

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 Sepnations, 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 SepNations» 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.

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.

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.

The moral ambiguity inherent in cloak - and - dagger scenarios seems tailor - made for the small, once - powerful island nation stubbornly perched on the edge of a larger, menacing Europe.

An ideal locale for beach - going visitors, the African nation of Seychelles is comprised of 115 smaller islands in the Indian Ocean, and offers a wide variety of water sports, including diving, snorkeling, sailing, windsurfing, and boating.

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.

In Bali I was on the Delegations of Jamaica (my home island and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration proisland and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration proIsland Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration project).

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

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.

«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».

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.

In addition to academia, Mona has worked as a researcher for the case Sarayaku vs. Ecuador in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a policy analyst for an NGO that lobbied the United Nations on behalf of small island states who face sea level rise, and an assistant contributor to a World Bank Report on Climate change and water distribution.

Debates center on what the intended cap on warming will be (while 2 ° C has been the target in previous discussions, activist and representatives from small island nations have been arguing strenuously for 1.5 ° C); the extent and mechanism of financial assistance to developing countries from developed countries; and whether or not nations will be required to update their emission reductions targets over time.

Since Trump's election victory on Tuesday, governments ranging from China to small island states have reaffirmed support for the 2015 Paris agreement during climate talks involving 200 nations set to run until Friday in Marrakesh, Morocco.

In 1991, even as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was being drafted, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)-- a negotiating group of nations facing some of the worst climate change risks — highlighted the need to address loss and damage for vulnerable countries.

Leaving the work under the Paris Agreement that is already weak enough for the year 2020 leaves us with four years of inaction that will have irreversible consequences such as the disappearance of small island nations, threatening of agriculture and food security, displacement of frontline communities, health problems like never before.

The earliest reports from Barbuda indicate that 90 percent of the houses on the small island were destroyed by the storm, an unsustainable level of damage, according to Carl - Friedrich Schleussner, a researcher with Climate Analytics who helps island nations prepare for climate change impacts.

Small island nations are on the frontlines of climate change — and for some, retreat is not an option.

Such a possible revision is actually foreseen in the Cancun Agreements, because the small island nations and least developed countries have long pushed for 1.5 °C, for good reasons.»

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.

(Small island nations argued for a much lower figure; at 3.6 degrees, they'll be gone.)

However, the most likely scenario, politically speaking, is that some of the parties to the climate talks, such as the small island nations that face an existential threat from sea level rise and are already advocating for at 1.5 - degree Celsius target, will use this research to justify their position.

What affects a small island nation will eventually have repercussions for the rest of the world.

Many countries, especially small - island nations, depend on coral reefs for tourism, protection of coastlines and to sustain livelihoods.

Star alumni: Nathalie Des Rosiers, dean of common law at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law; former Superior Court justices John Kennedy and Thomas Granger; Ontario Superior Court justices Jasmine Akbarali, Ian Leach, Margaret McSorley, Mary Anne Sanderson and Michael Varpio; Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Bradley Miller; David Shore, television writer for House, NYPD Blue, Family Law and Due South; Bryce Rudyk, senior legal adviser to Alliance of Small Island States in United Nations negotiations relating to climate change treaties and adjunct law professor at the New York University School of Law; Amy Archer, senior adviser to the government house leader at the Ontario government

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