Sentences with phrase «small island states say»

For instance, small island states say the focus on a two - degree maximum temperature increase would likely submerge entire countries.

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«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

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Calling the idea offered by the speaker during her State of the City speech last week «interesting and intriguing,» Cuomo said the island jail was a dated facility, and that the smaller, more technically advanced jails that can be built today would be «more appropriate.»

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Small island states, such as Grenada, say that target is not enough to stem the problem and could lead to the disappearance below the waves of some of these nations as well as devastating storm surges and tropical cyclones.

«If you just take the possible contribution of Singapore, as a small island state, you will realize that it is such a small contribution to reduce emissions in general,» Soriano said.

«People may say, well, Rhode Island is a small state and that's why they were able to implement this,» Green said.

Even if evolution were true, the island of Flores is too small to have maintained an isolated population for long enough to allow the evolution of a new species, say researchers at Pennsylvania State University (NewScientist, 26 August 2006, p. 7).

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No matter how much New Zealand, small islands states, Canada, Germany, Belgium and the UK said this was an essential diagram, China, the U.S., Russia and the Saudis said it was too much of a «judgment».

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.

«We must attack this problem with a sense of urgency and ambition and quite frankly we are not seeing the level of urgency and ambition from the U.S.,» said Selwin Hart, a delegate from Barbados who was speaking for the Alliance of Small Island States, who face their entire nations sinking beneath rising seas caused by global warming.

He said the government of India welcomes the proposal made by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the mobilization of at least US$ 100 billion by 2020 for supporting climate change action in developing countries and the priority Brown has given to the needs of least developed countries and small island developing states.

Small island developing states, from the Pacific to the Caribbean, say they are suffering ever more from rising sea levels and storm surges whipped up by cyclones.

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.

«We now need to summon the political will needed to make the hard decisions required for an effective and durable agreement that protects the most vulnerable among us,» said Thoriq Ibrahim of the Maldives, who is chair of the Alliance of Small Island States.

It said grants and highly concessional loans were essential for adapting to climate change in the world's most vulnerable countries, including small island developing States.

A more suitable target, some say, would be to aim for zero emissions from shipping as early as 2035, as was demanded by the Marshall Islands and several other small island states.

Entry into force «demonstrates unprecedented political momentum for climate action and bodes well for us moving forward», said Thoriq Ibrahim, Environment Minister for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States.

Here are some of those: Small Island States Demand 1.5 °C Temperature Target Leaders from the Alliance of Small Island States issued a statement, calling upon world leaders to go beyond the conventional global average temperature rise target of 2 °C, instead saying that 1.5 °C ought to be the target.

«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.