KOROR, Palau – The seventh Our Ocean Conference closed in Palau with the announcement of 410 commitments to protect the ocean worth $16.35 billion while at the business forum for island nations organised by the UN Office for the Most Vulnerable States (OHRLLS), major announcements were made on renewable energy, post-COVID tourism recovery and zero-emission shipping.
SIDS
13 April 2022
Heidi Schroderus-Fox, Acting High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing States and Small Island Developing States.
13 April, Koror, Palau - As the saying goes, we know more about the surface of the moon than the seafloor of our own ocean. But perhaps not for too much longer.
12 April 2022
The crippling cost of debt financing for many developing countries has hamstrung their recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, forced cutbacks in development spending, and constrained their ability to respond to further shocks, according to a new report launched by the United Nations today. ?
04 April 2022
General Assembly resolution 76/203 established a representative high-level panel of experts co-chaired by two eminent persons, one of whom shall be from a small island developing State.
This decision was in response to the Secretary General’s recommendation that the United Nations system develop a multidimensional vulnerability index for Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
01 April 2022
All countries are vulnerable in one form or another.
24 November 2021
Wednesday, 24 November 2021 8:00 am – 10:00 am (New York Time)
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INTRODUCTION
22 November 2021
Monday, 22 November 2021 4:00pm – 6:00pm (New York Time)
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INTRODUCTION
12 August 2021
NEW YORK, 28 July 2021 –?Reforms to both financing instruments and debt mechanisms for SIDS are necessary to adapt to the growing threat of climate change and encourage sustainable development.??
13 April 2021
Background
08 April 2021
8 April 2021, 4:00-5:30pm (New York) / 9 April 2020, 8:00-9:30am (Suva)
Online Briefing Session organized by Pacific Islands Forum, UN Department of Peacebuilding and Policital Affairs and UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
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OBJECTIVES