Sentences with phrase «small coastal countries»

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According to the study, countries with coastal borders — 192 in all — discharge plastic into the world's oceans with the largest quantities estimated to come from a relatively small number of middle - income, rapidly developing countries.

The direct take of turtles has continued legally in many regions and countries, often for traditional coastal communities to support themselves or small - scale fisheries supplying local markets with meat, and sometimes shell.

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

Forest ecologist Juan Armesto of the Universidad Católica de Chile, who collaborates with Weathers, says that the country's modern coastal rain forest represents small fragments of what must have once been a contiguous forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Mountains.

Dunham was staying in a small coastal village called Unawatuna when she became one of the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by a massive tsunami that hit Sri Lanka and other countries in the region.

This small, coastal country is located just north of Honduras and East of Guatemala.

I traveled alone around your country to small coastal towns like Beidaihe and big crowded cities like Shanghai, met people like you who were helpful, though never enthusiastically so, which became to me the best sort of kindness.

With its walled coastal towns, stunning Bay of Kotor, misty mountain peaks, and off - the - beaten - path wetlands, this small country is full of surprises.

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.

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

Lay of the Land: Guinea Bissau, located on the west coast of Africa and bordered by Senegal and Guinea, is a small, low - lying tropical country with coastal mangrove swamps and inland savanna.

by 2100, which would flood major coastal cities and submerge some small island countries, causing untold devastation.

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.