Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Publication Year:
2014
Publication Place
New York, New York
Physical Description:
138p. : ill. (col.) ; 29cm.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
40632
Legacy PEIN ID:
80705
General Notes
Online only
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
SIDS - Community-based action - Equator Initiative - Case Studies
SIDS - Sustainable & resilient - Case Studies
Abstract
Communities and islands... two of the most important building blocks in the future we want - in a future that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient. Their health and well-being will be the litmus test for success. The past 12 years of the Equator Initiative have surfaced local leaders in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that are without doubt the global champions we need for sustainable development - for our global community as well as for the future of islands. The priorities of SIDS and their policy agenda have changed little over the past 20 years. When the sustainable development for SIDS was quietly introduced to Chapter 17 of Agenda 21 - in 1992 - there was some surprise, but little resistance. This was at a time when many SIDS were without environment units let alone Ministers responsible for the portfolio, and climate change was just emerging as a significant global threat. While some of the institutional capacity in SIDS was still being built, island communities were able to tell stories, provide the anecdotal evidence of changing environments - of climate change itself - that over the subsequent years have been confirmed by science. The strong sense of self-reliance was as evident then as it is today.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Publication Year:
2014
Publication Place
New York, New York
Physical Description:
138p. : ill. (col.) ; 29cm.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
40632
Legacy PEIN ID:
80705
General Notes
Online only
Record Created: 08-Oct-2016
Record Modified: 17-Dec-2020