At #HLPF session on Africa, LDCs & LLDCs, Portugal shared how it's turning political commitment into action:
✅ UN fellowships - ocean, digital transf., and outer space
✅ Debt-for-climate swaps
✅ MVI & Go Beyond GDP
✅ Triangular cooperation
#FFD4 #LLDC3 #SIDS4 #LDC5 #SDGs
An #HLPF ministerial segment Monday focused on the journey from the SDG Summit to the Summit of the Future and hopes for the acceleration of the #2030Agenda and the #SDGs on the back of #SIDS4 and the Second World Summit on Social Development
CONGRATULATIONS to @PvblicF as the SIDS Global Data Hub (lower right) #SIDS4 is featured in Jack Dangermond’s opening catalog of great work that users are doing
“The rhetoric has gotten better. The action? Not so much.”
#SIDS4 has given the international community the opportunity to move away from talking and ensure a future for #SIDS, if there is the necessary political will
Read the ENB summary now.
#SIDS4 has just concluded and the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda - a ten year sustainable development agenda for small islands - has been adopted 🌊
Rueanna Haynes breaks down the outcome and why it prioritises climate in a new piece in Devex.
www.devex.com/news/opinion...
“Our smallness will not hold us back—not anymore.”
These words during the closing plenary echoed the many calls for urgency and resolve heard at #SIDS4.
The Conference formally adopted the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States.
Despite many at #SIDS4 lauding the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States, an evening forum showed divergent views on whether the outcome document truly reflects the views and needs of civil society… and perhaps #SIDS themselves
Such a HUGE honor to just be in the same room as my heroine Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland & to hear her remarks at the 3rd Leaders Summit of the Local2030 Islands Network, #SIDS4 in Antigua 🇦🇬. We at Esri will continue to do our best to support locally driven and cultural informed solutions.
Such a HUGE honor to just be in the same room as my heroine @SecDebHaaland & to hear her remarks at the 3rd Leaders Summit of the @Local2030IN at #SIDS4. We at Esri will continue to support locally driven + cultural informed solutions
@Esri_Conserv @EsriFederalGovt @Local2030
While small island developing states have made some advancements in areas like energy and transport in recent years, ICT capacity has shown notable progress.
Full article by UNCTAD Director Paul Akiwumi: ow.ly/P5mM50RX3qr
#SIDS4
"Institutional capacity, useability of data, and evidence-based decision-making for #SustainableDevelopment in Small Island Developing States"
A new working paper with Kalim Shah for the #SIDS4 meeting via ODI.
odi.org/en/publicati...
#IslandStudies #SmallIslands #BigData #SmallData #Islands
The pace picked up at #SIDS4 Tuesday as delegates chose to hear country statements or attend interactive dialogues, a high-level meeting, or a special event
Given the 10-year gap between Conferences, the chance for extended conversations seemed welcome
#SIDS #climate #islands
Disasters Avoided Newsletter #3
Focusing on avoiding and dealing with disasters on small islands.
mailchi.mp/836b22903485...
Supporting #SmallIslands #IslandStudies #SIDS4 #DisastersAvoided #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #NoNaturalDisasters #DisastersAreNotNatural
Small island developing states face systemic risks, climate disasters, high debt & reliance on imports.
UNCTAD strategy focuses on policy research, technical cooperation, capacity building & advocacy to achieve sustainable development. ▶️ ow.ly/N4oM50RXZuT
#SIDS4
Aloha @SciDiplomacyUSA! I am here at #SIDS4 also, supporting @PvblicF but am also one of your new Science Envoys! Hope we can at least DM!
Aloha @SciDiplomacyUSA! I am here at #SIDS4 also supporting @PvblicF but am also one of your new Science Envoys! Hope we can connect!
#SIDS countries provide us with innovations, natural resources and indigenous knowledge that play a critical role in the health of our shared society.
Learn why the ongoing #SIDS4 Conference is a key opportunity for #SmallIslands and the world: desapublications.un.org/un-desa-voic...
Participants at #SIDS4 heard urgent calls for action to address the climate crisis which is threatening the existence of #SIDS, including appeals to implement the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index to help secure access to concessionary financing.
Extreme happiness is meeting the magical Auli’i Cravalho, the voice Disney’s Moana, but also Chief Impact Officer of SDG News, who moderated in our PVBLIC Foundation #SIDS4 session on the power of geospatial data to achieve regional resilience + global prosperity. See nexus of this at sids.sdg.org
Extreme happiness is meeting the magical Auli’i Cravalho, the voice @DisneyAnimation’s Moana, but also Chief Impact Officer of @SDGNews_ , who moderated in our @PvblicF #SIDS4 session on the power of geospatial data to achieve regional resilience + global prosperity.
#SIDS4 #SmallIslands @PvblicF #PVBLICforSDGs
Logo der 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States 27-30 May 2024 St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda.
Roundtable: Bei der #SIDS4 diskutieren heute unsere #KAAK_DAI Kolleg:innen gemeinsam mit
@diplo.de, #GCCMobility und den Ständigen Vertretungen von Tuvalu sowie Palau bei den UN "Neue Technologien in der #Digitalisierung von durch #Klimawandel bedrohtem #Kulturerbe":
www.dainst.org/newsroom/kli...
