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Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 2014 Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
2-4 July 2013 | Kingston, Jamaica
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Highlights for Tuesday, 2 July 2013
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Opening plenary. L-R: Sharon Crooks, Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Jamaica; Amb. Marlene Moses (Nauru), Chair of AOSIS; Robert Pickersgill, Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Jamaica; and Arun Kashyup, UNDP Jamaica. |
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The Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States opened in Kingston, Jamaica, on Tuesday morning, 2 July 2013. Following the opening plenary —which featured statements from Arun Kashyup, UNDP Jamaica; Amb. Marlene Moses (Nauru), Chair of AOSIS; Nikhil Seth, Director, UN Division for Sustainable Development (via Skype); and Robert Pickersgill, Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Jamaica—delegates began to address the objectives of the meeting:
 Assess the progress to date and remaining gaps in implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action and the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation;
Seek a renewed political commitment;
Identify new and emerging challenges and opportunities for the sustainable development of SIDS; and
Identify priorities for the sustainable development of SIDS to be considered in the elaboration of the post-2015 UN development agenda.
The first panel discussion and interactive discussion focused on the SIDS sustainable development agenda from a Caribbean perspective. In the afternoon, the focus was on regional issues on the SIDS sustainable development agenda with panels and discussions on: climate change and natural and manmade disasters; sustainable energy; macroeconomics and trade; social policy issues; and protection, conservation and sustainable use of the region’s natural resources.
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Meeting resources
General Assembly resolution
Conference website
SIDSnet
Symposium on Understanding Ecological and Social Resilience in Island Systems, 9-11 April 2013, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Oceans, Seas and Sustainablr Development: Implementation and follow-up to Rio+20, 18-19 April 2013, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
EGM on SIDS and Post-2015 Development Agenda, 23-24 April 2013, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
EGM on Marine Science and Technology for SIDS, 14-15 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland
EGM on Foresight and SIDS: Identifying emerging sustainable development issues from the perspective of SIDS, 14-16 May 2013, Cambridge, Enlgand
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction - Strengthening Partnerships Towards Disaster Risk Reduction for SIDS, 21 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland
Barbados Programme of Action
Mauritius Strategy of Implementation
IISD RS resources
IISD RS summary report of the Barbados Conference on the Sustinable Development of SIDS, 25 April - 6 May 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the Twenty-second Special Session of the General Assembly for the Review and Appraisal of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA+5), 27-28 September 1999, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
IISD RS coverage of the Inter-regional Preparatory Meeting for the 10-year Review of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, 26-30 January 2004, Nassau, Bahamas
IISD RS coverage of the SIDS Preparatory Meeting for the 10-Year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action, 14-16 April 2004, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
IISD RS coverage of the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, 10-14 January 2005, Port Louis, Mauritius
IISD RS coverage of the High-level Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (MSI+5), 24-25 September 2010, UN Headquarters, New York, United States of America
SIDS-L - A mailing list for news on SIDS policy
SIDS Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of UN and Intergovernmental Activities Addressing SIDS
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news |
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