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SIDS

17 May 2023

Conference Room 6, United Nations Headquarters, New York

Co-organisers: Alliance of Small Island States, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Office of the High Representative of Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, UNWomen, Australia (TBC), Fiji

21 March 2023

Ensuring Water Security in SIDS is an existential issue. Over 70% of SIDS face a risk of water shortage which increases to as much as 91% in the lowest altitude. SIDS mainly depend on groundwater and rainwater harvesting, which make them highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Groundwater resources are at risk of pollution, depletion, and saltwater intrusion.

21 March 2023

Disasters, climate change and environmental degradation are reshaping both patterns of water availability and human mobility patterns. In 2021 alone, 23.7 million new displacements in the context of disasters were registered across the world. Out of the 23.7 million, 10.1 million happened in the context of floods, 11.5 in the context of storms.

21 March 2023

Responding to the UN Secretary-General*s Call to Action: Realizing Early Warning Systems for All in a World with Increasing Water Related Hazards

Co-organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

23 January 2023

Addressing the challenges of climate-induced human mobility in SIDS through effective partnerships, in a context of recovery from COVID-19

(UNHQ, Conference Room 5)

09 December 2022

UN-OHRLLS is supporting SIDS Member States in the preparatory process for the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States, scheduled for 2024 and specifically for reporting on the SAMOA Pathway.

02 November 2022

Loss and damage is already happening.?And the world*s Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are on the frontline of a climate emergency where weather and climate extremes are on the rise, pushing people and ecosystems beyond the limits of what they can adapt to.??

10 August 2022

Antigua and Barbuda, 10 August 2022 每 Officials from across the world*s Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific, Caribbean, Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea (AIS) met in Antigua and Barbuda*s capital St.

29 July 2022

29 July, St. Johns, Antigua 每 As debt mounts for small island developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean, their ability to build resilience to the climate crisis and other external shocks is lagging. A new fund, the Caribbean Resilience Fund (CRF), aims to provide island nations in the region with a lifeline to strengthen their resilience and restructure their debt.