Sentences with phrase «lying small island states»

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.

Even if the 1.5 °C target was reached, which scientists say is highly unlikely, a number of low - lying small island states in the Pacific and Caribbean will disappear off the map.

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

Doing nothing until the end of the decade would also likely mean curtains for low - lying areas and small island states, including the Maldives, whose President Mohamed Nasheed I advise on climate change issues.

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.

-- High exposure of people, economic activity, and infrastructure in low lying coastal zones and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

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

In this episode, they explain the causes of climate change and highlight its devastating impacts in small islands and low lying costal states.

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.

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