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I. CLIMATE CHANGE AND SEA-LEVEL RISE:
This chapter
highlights the possible impact that such phenomena might have on
SIDS. This was identified as a problem that confronts SIDS in
particular and yet originates at a global level. This was apparent
in the references made to the Framework Convention on Climate
Change and the need for its ratification and entry into force.
These references met with some opposition as delegates sometimes
felt that the current PrepCom should not interfere with ongoing
negotiations in other fora and so this part of the text remained in
brackets. Means to respond to this phenomenon included monitoring
and predictions, integrated coastal management as a way to provide
response measures to the impacts of climate change, and greater
exchange of information and experience between SIDS. SIDS and NGOs
alike, however, stressed the futility of adopting such measures if
an effort is not carried out at the global level to reduce CO2
emissions in an attempt to mitigate global warming and its impacts
on sea-level rise.