Sentences with phrase «small island nation»

The most vulnerable countries of the world, including many small island nations, believe they can sustain about half that rate.

Second, to help the most vulnerable countries including small island nations adapt to climate change by building barriers against rising seas or developing drought - resilient crops.

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

Small island nations contribute the least to climate change, yet are feeling the greatest impact of its consequences.

Small island nations grappling with rising seas are pushing for a limit of 1.5 degrees.

Many small island nations would be severely affected by sea level increases and some may disappear entirely.

With small island nations in peril, these days President Gayoom evokes the vision of a United Nations where «name plates are gone; seats are empty.»

At the Copenhagen summit, a spokesman for small island nations warned that many would not survive a two - degree rise: «Some countries will flat - out disappear.»

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.

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.

And small island nations said they feared that even two - degree Celcius global warming would effectively risk wiping them off the face of the planet by raising sea levels.

Use of the lower 1.5 degree number was proposed by small island nations to call attention to the worst potential impacts of rising sea levels.

Avoiding some touchy issues What the document does not do is tackle any of the sensitive demands small island nations have made in the U.N. climate change negotiations.

Christopher Brown from Tourism and Transport Forum (TTF) in Australia warned that governments «could drown small island nations in a sea of taxes before the tidal waves arrive».

President Mohammed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, whose small island nation is existentially threatened by rising sea levles caused by climate change, has called on the world to set a target of returning the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere to 350

What makes this process complicated is that you have small island nations who are about to disappear because of sea level rise, you have oil producers who are legitimately concerned about the future of their economy, you have major industrialized nations who are afraid they will lose jobs, and you have major developing countries whose overriding concern is economic growth and poverty eradication.

An Auckland University researcher has offered new hope to the myriad small island nations in the Pacific which have loudly complained their low - lying atolls will drown as global warming boosts sea levels.

CCI helps small island nations become global leaders in climate change action and, in 2015, launched an expanded effort to increase renewable energy generation, adopt energy efficient practices, and promote sustainable economic management for their oceans and increasing resiliency to climate change for coastal communities.

He does not speak alone: this fall, some 50 countries, including a number of small island nations along with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the European Union, are planning to put a resolution before the U.N. General Assembly requesting that the U.N. Security Council address «the threat posed by climate change to international peace and security.»

Small island nations long have called for a 1.5 - degree threshold, arguing, based on sound science, that they may not exist if temperatures warm 2 degrees because seas will rise too quickly for their islands to adapt.

It is driving the sea - level rise imperiling small island nations.

As the leaders of the attendant developing and small island nations took their turns at the podium on Monday's United Nations high - level event on climate change, their anger — and desperation — was palpable.

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

Fiji, like many other small island nations, is seen as particularly vulnerable to global warming and a possible rise in ocean levels as a result of melting polar ice.

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.

Apologies, W.M., but my colleague Geoffrey wrote that headline, and he comes from that small island nation where people think collective nouns can take plural verbs.

Small island nations, which under the U.N. system have votes equal in power to big, rich countries, fought hard for most restrictive limits during the two - week conference.

This opens up, literally, a world of opportunity for would - be entrepreneurs on the small island nation.

Most of its foreign employees and manufacturing facilities were already located in the Caribbean, and Gildan's founder and then CEO Greg Chamandy explained in a press release that the small island nation was attractive because of its high literacy rate and excellent telecommunications system.

In our history, this small island nation has made miraculous economic growth.»

New Zealand, a small island nation floating in the southwestern Pacific, somewhere east of Australia is fed up with being left on the cutting floor.

Septemeber 2017 — Present / Dominica On September 18, 2017, the worst natural disaster in the history of Dominica ravaged this small island nation.

On September 18, 2017, the worst natural disaster in the history of Dominica ravaged this small island nation.

To illustrate her argument, Paskal discussed the Kingdom of Tonga, a small island nation in the Pacific.

Malta, a small island nation in the Mediterranean, has fashioned itself as a leader in digital ledger technology regulation.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.

New Zealand is currently atop the Westgate Superbook odds list at 2/1, but the small island nation of Fiji sits right behind them at 9/4.

For a small island nation hoping to get support for its efforts to stem deforestation, that's «suicide,» said Conrad.

The main island of Kiribati, a small island nation, is 3,300 miles from San Francisco, 3,800 miles from Brisbane and just 140 miles north of the equator.

Small island nations and the coastal regions of Africa and Asia will be especially hard hit.

Successful projects on the Faroe Islands can inform how other small island nations, and even mainland countries, approach reliable, renewable energy.

Reducing tourist consumption of reef fish is critical for Palau's ocean sustainability, finds a new UBC study that suggests other small island nations might also consider adopting this strategy.

An experiment kicking off in a small island nation in the north - west of Europe later this year could point the way to an answer.

The concerns of small island nations will influence the meeting in a new way.

«I expect we'll see a lot at this COP that relates to the priorities of small island nations.»

This year's COP president is Fiji's prime minister, Frank Bainimarama — the first representative from a small island nation to lead the U.N. climate meeting.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.