Sentences with phrase «lying island country»

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«We want that to accelerate and make sure that the bigger countries are more serious about this and have in place mechanisms, especially when disaster strikes small islands,» Thoriq Ibrahim, environment and energy minister for the low - lying Maldives and chairman of the AOSIS, told E&E News recently.

Since 1992, the UN recognizes a distinct group of fifty developing, low - lying coastal countries known as Small Islands Developing States (SIDS).

Similar to larger countries attempting to expand renewables, the Faroe Islands» biggest problem lies in storage and integration into the grid.

«Many parts of the coast can, with forward planning, adapt to sea - level rise, but we need to better understand environments that will struggle to adapt, such as developing countries with large low - lying river deltas sensitive to salinisation, or coral reefs and particularly small, remote islands or poorer communities,» said Dr Brown.

Despite lying in the heart of the tropics, Magnetic Island boasts 320 sunny days per year, allowing you to enjoy the scenic walking trails, the country's best dive sites and buzzing beach parties all year round.

You may well find that you're lacing up your hiking boots every day on a big island vacation - so much of the island's charm lies in getting out into the country on foot to explore.

This beach lies on the western end of Cayo Largo, a small island off the country's southeastern coast.

Dive resorts in Belize can be found along its coastline with the Caribbean Sea — there are a few centered in the capital, Belize City, but most are located on Ambergris Caye, the country's largest island which lies to the northeast — while its numerous atolls and reef systems are home to dive sites by the thousands.

The low - lying Pacific Island country of Kiribati is one of many micro-nations in danger of serious damage and even inundation from rising sea levels caused by melting polar ice and increasingly turbulent global weather.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other climate scientists regard global warming of two degrees Celsius as catastrophic, bringing water stress to arid and semi-arid countries, more floods in low - lying coastal areas, coastal erosion in small island states, and the elimination of up to 30 percent of animal and plant species.

However, countries also agreed on a more aspirational goal at Paris to try to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, which was seen as a safer level for low - lying island states and other more vulnerable countries.

Low - lying island states and other countries vulnerable to rising sea levels, floods and hurricanes have been putting pressure on developed countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions and keep the rise in temperatures to within a limit of 2C this century.

When the 2 - degree limit was agreed to at a 2010 conference in Cancún, Mexico, it faced intense opposition from the low - lying island nations and poor countries at greatest risk from rising sea levels and extremes of weather.

Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large - scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low - lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions.

The news is particularly troubling for my country, the Maldives — the world's lowest lying island chain — and for other coastal and island nations that sit just [continue reading...]

Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP.

For people in the developed world, the arcane language and wonky procedures of the United Nations» climate change negotiations can obscure the existential threat global warming poses to low - lying islands and countries that permanently teeter on the edge of drought and famine.

The US and Europe have long opposed any deals that would require wealthier nations to compensate poorer countries for «loss and damages» caused by global warming (say, low - lying islands that vanish under the rising seas).

The US — and European — position was a huge disappointment for the low - lying and small island states, which argued they needed recognition that their countries could pay the ultimate price for climate change in terms of land loss and migration.

«Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts that, in some cases, could have associated damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP,» the report said.

«Some low - lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts and associated annual damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP,» the report said.

The report, which is the second installment of a three - part series of scientific updates from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sharply warns that climate change poses the greatest risks to the most vulnerable populations within all nations, and a potentially existential risk to poorer countries already struggling with food insecurity and civil conflict, as well as low - lying small island states.