Saint Kitts and Nevis
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
St. Kitts & Nevis submitted its First National Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2001. St. Kitts and Nevis has a tropical maritime climate, which is influenced by steady northeast trade winds and tropical oceanic and cyclonic movements. Major coastal impacts can be expected from sea-level rise and other effects of climate change. These effects will include an intensification of present patterns of coastal erosion, saline intrusion, and...
admin
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05 Apr 2011
Introduction
The unprecedented change in economic and social development, technology, international policies and the global environment over the last 30 years has posed great challenges for Commonwealth small states. These states1 – made up of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and small and vulnerable economies (SVEs) – represent a group of countries facing special economic and environmental difficulties in achieving sustainable development.
The major characteristics of small...
