Press release
SIDS
13 July 2023
This side event is organized by OHRLLS and LDC Watch.
The USG of UN-OHRLLS delivered keynote remarks, alongside the Chairs of the LDCs, LLDCs and AOSIS and the Global Coordinator of LDC Watch.
View programme here
17 May 2023
Conference Room 6, United Nations Headquarters, New York
Co-organisers: Alliance of Small Island States, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Office of the High Representative of Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, UNWomen, Australia (TBC), Fiji
21 March 2023
Ensuring Water Security in SIDS is an existential issue. Over 70% of SIDS face a risk of water shortage which increases to as much as 91% in the lowest altitude. SIDS mainly depend on groundwater and rainwater harvesting, which make them highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Groundwater resources are at risk of pollution, depletion, and saltwater intrusion.
21 March 2023
Disasters, climate change and environmental degradation are reshaping both patterns of water availability and human mobility patterns. In 2021 alone, 23.7 million new displacements in the context of disasters were registered across the world. Out of the 23.7 million, 10.1 million happened in the context of floods, 11.5 in the context of storms.
21 March 2023
Responding to the UN Secretary-General’s Call to Action: Realizing Early Warning Systems for All in a World with Increasing Water Related Hazards
Co-organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
23 January 2023
Addressing the challenges of climate-induced human mobility in SIDS through effective partnerships, in a context of recovery from COVID-19
(UNHQ, Conference Room 5)
09 December 2022
UN-OHRLLS is supporting SIDS Member States in the preparatory process for the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States, scheduled for 2024 and specifically for reporting on the SAMOA Pathway.
02 November 2022
Loss and damage is already happening. And the world’s Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are on the frontline of a climate emergency where weather and climate extremes are on the rise, pushing people and ecosystems beyond the limits of what they can adapt to.
10 August 2022
Antigua and Barbuda, 10 August 2022 – Officials from across the world’s Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific, Caribbean, Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea (AIS) met in Antigua and Barbuda’s capital St.