SIDS Sustainability & Resilience
This page provides links to information and interviews about Sustainability and Resilience for Small Island Developing States around the world.
SIDS - small yet central to the global pursuit of sustainability and resilience
As Rajeev Isaar of the UNDP describes in this piece, the stark reality remains that the existential threat posed by disaster/climate risks to SIDS remains as grim today, if not grimmer, as ever before. How can we change things, to ensure a sustainable and resilient future?
An interview with NASA's David Green
In this interview, David Green, Program Manager at NASA for Disaster Risk Reduction & Resilience describes how we can leverage data intelligently, to benefit SIDS resilience and disaster risk reduction and management around the world...
An interview with Cathryn MacCallum
In this interview, Cathryn MacCallum – Director, Sazani Associates and Associate at Satarla, discusses "on the ground realities" affecting SIDS today, and some of the things we can all do to play a part to supporting them in a sustainable way...
Building resilience for sustainable trade, tourism and development
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) discusses a new outcomes report, “Climate resilient transport infrastructure for sustainable trade, tourism and development in SIDS”'.
Building Resilience and Climate Action - a report by Arup
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are on the front line of global climate change and feel the impacts very directly. The challenges they are facing are interconnected and require multi-sector solutions.
Arup takes a systems-approach to strengthen the resilience of SIDS to shocks and stresses, and to contribute to the ongoing wellbeing of the island populations, maximising the opportunity for them to remain in place.
A new island rising from the Indian Ocean
This article from The BBC describes how the modern island of Hulhumalé is taking shape 8km off the north-east coast of Malé island in the Maldives, in direct response to the threat posed by inexorably rising sea levels.
Climate risk initiative for Asia-Pacific launched
In December 2020, the New Zealand High Commissioner to Fiji, H.E. Jonathan Curr launched the Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era: Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Programme. It is a first of its kind initiative for the region where market-based climate risk insurance solutions will be made available to Pacific islanders in Fiji and Vanuatu first, and then progressively to other Pacific island countries.
African island nations make ambitious plans for energy
African island nations are making progress with sustainable energy initiatives.
The Singapore Sustainability Blueprint
The Singapore government has published a Sustainable Singapore Blueprint.
Sustainable Energy and Private Sector support for SIDS
This piece from the SIDS Global Business Network discusses how the private sector can help SIDS with developing affordable and clean energy solutions.
Staunching the flow: St. Kitts and Nevis’ fight to keep its soil
When you are a small island nation, every inch of space counts. But from rising sea levels to natural disasters and coastal erosion, in the age of climate change many islands are shrinking before their citizens’ very eyes. Amongst those most at risk is the twin-island federation of St. Kitts and Nevis...
Digitalisation crucial to SIDS long-term development
The upscaling of digital technologies presents a host of opportunities for small island developing states (SIDS) to diversify their economies, boost manufacturing, gain greater access to global value chains, and improve disaster preparedness...
Learning from others - a case study of the island of Tilos (Greece)
The small Greek island of Tilos (which is not a SIDS member) provides some useful and valuable pointers and learnings for islands seeking to succeed with initiatives for renewable energy...