ECOSOC chief calls for financial support for small island developing states

Apr 25, 2021, at 06:42 am

New York: Small island developing states (SIDS) must receive financial and international support if they are to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, the President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Munir Akram, said on Friday.

‘We may be small islands, but no man is an island’, Papua New Guinea youth tells world leaders

Sep 28, 2019, at 06:57 am

New York: “All of us from small islands can relate to the word’s perception of us, as small islands”, but rather than treating them as distant vessels, imagine instead “an undivided Pacific, connected by an ocean highway.” That was the plea to world leaders from Vinzealhar Ainjo Kwangin Nen, on Friday, speaking on behalf of her generation, on the front line of climate change. 

At UN, Jamaica urges partnerships to tackle climate impacts, economic fragility in small islands

Sep 28, 2018, at 09:34 am

New York, Sept 28 (IBNS): Galvanizing an effective global fundraising campaign to address climate change and achieve sustainable economic growth is key for small island developing States, Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, told world leaders at the seventy-third United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.