SIDS Case Study

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Introduction
In this paper, it is going to be discuss about the Small Island Developing State. The first part deals with a brief historical overview of the appearance of development issues and of SIDS in the international arena. Then in a second part, both an overall description of SIDS common characteristics and SIDS’s current and future challenge faces due to climate change, will be presented. A third part will cope with the effects and vulnerabilities caused by climate change. The last part, before the conclusion, will treat the adaptation strategies.
In the developing wold, both population and economy depend on the environment. Nowadays, climate changes and other environmental problems have a huge impact in the developing world.
It was in the 70s, that environmental issues made their appearance in the global theatre and were presented as challenges. Mainly, it was during UN Conference on Human Environment in 1972, when countries decided general principles to fight environmental degradation.
The reason because environmental issues were not take in consideration before, in the economic field, was due to the absence of their costs from the calculation of GNI. However, it has to be consider that future growth and in general, quality of life are strongly related to environment. Therefore, environment’s long term implications has to be taken in consideration in the economy.
Climate changes are having a big impact on developing countries, especially on SIDS. These states are particularly vulnerable to them, because their resources as water and food supplies are based on climate resources. In addiction, most of them do not have efficient adaptive capacities to deal with climate changes.
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...ers has being intensified.
In small islands the numbers of cyclones are dominated both by El Niño Southern Oscillation and variability, the result is a reallocations of tropical storms and a change in the routes taken by them.
Sea level rise is the major concern for SIDS, especially low-lying ones. Across the Pacific regions the average of sea-level rise is around +0.77 mm/yr53, whilst in the Caribbean is about 1 mm/yr. The difference is due to local conditions and to the tectonic movements.

What was said previously represents mostly the climate situation that SIDS are facing now and that are going to deal with in the future. In fact the 2013 report of IPCC, states that both the warming of atmosphere and ocean are inevitable, that sea level is rising and emissions of greenhouse gases have increased. The future warming estimated by 2100 is about the same as the

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