The FSM has submitted its first National Communication on Climate Change to the UNFCCC. In the 2004-2023 Strategic Development Plan, Strategic Goal 1 under the Environment section recognised the need for mainstreaming climate change into national planning as well as in all economic development activities.
The FSM comprises 607 islands, a total area of 3 million square kilometres covering a total land area of 4,840 square kilometres. With such a huge land and ocean mass and its geographic...
In 1999, Mauritius made its Initial National Communication to the UNFCCC; the Second National Communication is underway. In the 2008-2009 budget, the Government embarked on the Maurice Ile Durable (Mauritius, Sustainable Island) programme, a vision first put forward by the Prime Minister in 2007 to combat energy insecurity. Also, since 1990 Mauritius has instituted a National Climate Committee (NCC) that oversees all climate change-related policy.
In Mauritius, meteorological records...