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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.»

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.

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

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.

She completed her midwifery training in Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, at the main hospital in Port Vila.

Kiribati, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, has thesmallest carbon footprint.

Not exact matches

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

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.

Luxembourg, a nation smaller than Rhode Island with a long history in mining, has bet 200 million euros — more than $ 225 million — on this industry that does not exist.

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

She described Beijing's view of these islands as more than just individual small nations, but collectively as an important factor in China's ability to resist Western containment.

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.

Northerly Island will host as many as eight 30,000 - capacity concerts a summer in addition to a full slate of smaller shows, promoters Live Nation and the Chicago Park District will announce Monday.

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.

In the nation's smallest state of Rhode Island, check out the most widely read political blog: http://www.rifuture.org.

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 GDP.

This year, Fiji has the presidency of the United Nations talks, and it's prioritizing the concerns of its residents in the South Pacific and other members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).

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.

Fish - farming companies such as HiddenFjord, in the town of Sørvágur, are the lifeblood of the Faroe Islands, a small nation in the North Atlantic Ocean halfway between Iceland and Norway.

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

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.

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.

Rhode Island Hospital is one of only 10 sites in the nation studying the effectiveness of freezing tumor cells to treat small malignant breast tumors.

Grenada is an island nation and sovereign state consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the south - eastern Caribbean Sea.

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.

While several countries have occupied the small island nation, the Portuguese arrived in the 1500s, and East Timor remained under Portuguese colonial rule until 1975 when the Indonesians invaded.

The nation's smallest state has embarked on an ambitious partnership with The Learning Accelerator, designed to make Rhode Island the first state in the nation to use blended learning in all its schools.

The nation's smallest state has embarked on an ambitious partnership with The Learning Accelerator, designed to make Rhode Island the first state in the nation to use blended learning...

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.

Like the cheapest places in Rhode Island, the places with the most expensive renters insurance premiums are relatively close to one another, contained within the geography of the nation's smallest state.

It's the smallest island in the world shared by two nations.

In the winter months, this small island nation is transformed into a magical world of black lava fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of coloIn the winter months, this small island nation is transformed into a magical world of black lava fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of coloin snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of color.

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This gives the small nation the same atmosphere as an island but without being in the middle of the ocean.

As the smallest island in the world to be shared by two sovereign nations, Saint Martin provides a unique opportunity to experience two different cultures in just one trip.

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.

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.

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I live in a small island nation that is quite strongly affected by el ninos and la ninas with drought etc..

In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's modelIn my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's modelin Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's modelin coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.

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

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 projectIn 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 projectin 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.

Litia Malikano Maiava from Tokelau, a small Pacific Island with a population of 1500, gave the audience something to cheer about: «Although we are the smallest island in the world, we are the first nation in the world to rely on 100 % renewables.&Island with a population of 1500, gave the audience something to cheer about: «Although we are the smallest island in the world, we are the first nation in the world to rely on 100 % renewables.&island in the world, we are the first nation in the world to rely on 100 % renewables.»

-LSB-...] leak of a «secret» Danish negotiating text seems to be fizzling down (see our previous post), this was most likely due in some part to a small island nation now famous here in Copenhagen.

Small island nations, like Saint Lucia and Barbados in the Caribbean, are extremely vulnerable to a warming climate, yet many rely on an industry that's a big driver of global carbon emissions.

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.

I was facing the fall of a small island nation of 33 atolls spread out in the South Pacific.

«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».