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Africa: Are Rising Seas, Coastal Erosion & Powerful Storms a Wave of the Future for Small Island Nations?

By Maldives Times December 16, 2017 7 min read

United Nations — The 44-member Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) represents some of the world’s most vulnerable island nations fighting a virtually losing battle against rising sea levels triggered by global warming and climate change. A negotiating voice of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), AOSIS has membership drawn from all oceans and regions of […]

Maldives forcefully voices plight of small island states at climate change conference

By Maldives Times November 18, 2017 5 min read

The plight of small island states was forcefully voiced by Maldivian Minister for Environment and Energy Thoriq Ibrahim at the 23rd Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP23) being held in Bonn, Germany. The Maldivian Minister pointed out that in 2017 climate change had ravaged Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and […]