REQUIRED ACTIONS FOR THE SMALL ISLANDS INDEPENDENT STATES (SIDS)
Submitted by christian on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 16:59
- Provide SIDS with the necessary and adequate funding, including through innovative sources of financing, to assist SIDS in their mitigation and adaptation measures and efforts.
- Commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to internationally agreed levels within an agreed time frame.
- Emphasize the collection of information on limited and biologically precious resources that are being threatened in SIDS.
- Provide a conservation focus that takes into account customary land and reef tenure systems and practices, which may differ from that usually found in the larger developed countries.
- Provide adequate basic institutional support for conservation efforts (staff, vehicles etc.) and access to financial resources to help start innovative projects.
- Provide legal framework of potential benefit to the sustainable development of SIDS
- Enable SIDS to complete the delimitation of their maritime boundaries.
- Assess living and non-living seabed resources within their national jurisdiction.
- Build technical and financial capacities with the necessary support of the international community.
- Develop and implement regional initiatives to promote the sustainable conservation and management of coastal and marine resources.
- Strengthen respective national frameworks for small island developing states for more effective disaster management.
- Strengthen the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and related SIDS regional tools to improve national disaster mitigation.
- Increase public awareness about disaster reduction, stimulate and support inter-sectoral partnerships.
- Augment the capacity of small island developing states to predict and respond to emergency situations.
- Produce commercially feasible options of energy supply, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and hydro- and ocean energy.
- Develop and implement integrated energy programmes to enhance energy effi ciency and to promote the development and use of renewable energy.
- Strengthen ongoing and supporting new efforts in the area of energy supply and services, including the promotion of demonstration projects.
- Cooperate with international partners to promote wider dissemination and application of technology to strengthen existing mechanisms and further pursue success for financing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
- Cooperate and develop viable regional transportation arrangements, including improved air, land and sea transport policies.
- Take initiatives in such areas as access to and the use of information and communication technology.
- Maintain low-technology communication solutions, such as high-frequency radio for rural and remote locations.
- Further liberalize telecommunications sector as one of the possible means to address the high costs caused by existing monopoly service providers.
- Establish a universal, rule-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system.
- Recognize the importance of intensifying efforts to facilitate the full and effective participation by small economies, notably SIDS, in the deliberations and decision-making process of the WTO.
- Develop and enhance the emergency response capacities necessary to protect marine and coastal environments from accidents and incidents relating to marine transport.
- Look for ways of minimizing and/or converting wastes, such as sewage, into a resource (e.g., fertilizer for agriculture).
- Limiting imports of non-biodegradable and hazardous substances.
- Changing community attitudes to the disposal and use of sewage.
- Develop sound long-term management strategies for water catchment and storage areas, including the treatment and distribution of limited water supplies.
- Implement freshwater resources strategies that take account of the possible constraints to water supply from low groundwater recharge in times of drought, salt-water intrusion, and inundation as a result of climate change and sea-level rise.
- Develop freshwater resources strategies that involve substantial capital investment and ongoing maintenance programmes.
- Pay due consideration to the primacy of the need to supply water for sanitation purposes
- Resolve competing demands for the use of land resources.
- Develop and adopt more effective and efficient ways of using those natural resources.
- Plan the development of tourism particularly in relation to compatible land uses, water management, coastal zone management and the development of parks and protected areas.
- Integrate tourism within the existing cultural and environmental constraints and opportunities present in SIDS.
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