Maldives
21 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 December 2012: The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) announced that Maldives has become the 177th Party to CITES.
Maldives are home to over 300 CITES species, including the whale shark, dugong, giant humphead wrasse, black seahorse, hawksbill turtle, Eurasian spoonbill, duck hawk and Indian flying-fox. CITES trade with Maldives consists mainly of raw corals.
The Convention will enter into force for Maldives on 12 March...
26 Oct 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 October 2012: The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) have released the ESCAP/UNISDR Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2012, titled “Reducing Vulnerability and Exposure to Disasters.” The report was released on the sidelines of the Fifth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
The 133-page report underscores that growing disaster risks in the Asia-Pacific region are driven by the...
28 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 September 2012: On the third day of the High-level Debate of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Comoros, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Maldives, and Antigua and Barbuda underscored the importance to small island developing States (SIDS) of addressing climate change. Solomon Islands, Jamaica and Cape Verde addressed other aspects of development in SIDS.
Ikililou Dhoinine, President of Comoros, highlighted ongoing challenges posed by climate change, including heavy...
27 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 September 2012: At a high-level meeting on sustainable energy for all (SE4ALL), speakers welcomed developments in the governance of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s SE4ALL initiative, highlighted new kinds of partnerships being forged around sustainable energy, and called for a move from commitments to tangible impact. Ban also announced changes to the governance of the initiative for its implementation phase.
Helen Clark, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator, noted that small...
25 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 September: The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has convened the 59th session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board, which discussed the situation of the world’s least devloped countries (LDCs).
The discussion focused on UNCTAD’s Programme of Action for the LDCs for the Decade 2011-2020, which includes a 2020 target of having half the world’s LDCs, many of which are small island developing States (SIDS), on track to “graduate” from the LDC...
