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| | | Small Island Developing States - SIDS |
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| | “The world’s small island developing states are front-line zones where, in concentrated form, many of the main problems of environment and development are unfolding” (Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the UN, 1999). | | | | BACKGROUND | | |  Small Island Developing States or ‘SIDS’ are island nations that are characterized by, inter alia : - Relatively small populations
- Limited resources
- Geographic remoteness
- Heightened vulnerability to natural disasters
- Heightened vulnerability to the impacts of global climate change
- Extreme economic vulnerability to/dependency on the global market
The unique challenges to development that SIDS face are such that UN Millennium Development Goal #8 specifically states the need to “address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing states”. The relationship between SIDS and the oceans is a defining one: for SIDS, the oceans represent both their greatest resource and their biggest liability. Sustainable exploitation and management of the living and non-living resources in large exclusive economic zones (EEZ’s) of SIDS are the key to their development, while rising sea-levels fueled by global climate change, marine pollution, and natural disasters such as tsunamis and hurricanes threaten SIDS future. | | Photo title: woman working in jamaica | | Photo credit: fao | | | | BARBADOS PLAN OF ACTION AND THE MAURITIUS INTERNATIONAL MEETING | | | | In 1994, the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Development States was convened in Barbados to address the special challenges to development of SIDS. The result of the Conference was the ‘Barbados Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States’. Moreover, in January 2005, the International Meeting for the 10-year review of the Barbados Plan of Action was held in Mauritius. This meeting has resulted in the ‘Mauritius Strategy’ for the further implementation of the Barbados Plan of Action. | | | | |
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| | | Title | SIDS - Small Island Developing States
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| | Description | This website is an information gateway to UNEP's assistance in SIDS. The core of the website is a database that shows UNEP's most relevant activities in SIDS in the last ten years, as well as ongoing and future activities.The site also includes decisions that have been adopted in the context of UNEP's Governing Bodies, information on the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, links to other relevant SIDS sites, and UNEP reports and publications that pertain to SIDS. | | Keywords |  SIDS; UNEP | |
| Content Language(s) | English | | Web Address (URL) | http://www.sids.unep.org/index.html?ln=6 | |
| Type of Website | Institutional website | |
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