United Nations stakeholders be aware it’s extra crucial than ever earlier than for the worldwide group to plot a powerful motion plan for small island growing states (SIDS) when leaders converge this Might on the Fourth Worldwide Convention on SIDS (SIDS4).
A serious milestone in preparations for the SIDS4 is underway, as UN Member States are at present taking part within the first Preparatory Committee Assembly for SIDS4.
The Preparatory Committee is assembly from 22 to 26 January 2024 to have interaction in negotiations on anew ten-year programme of motion for SIDS, to be adopted throughout SIDS4 in Antigua and Barbuda from 27 to 30 Might 2024.
These weak nations proceed to face vital challenges to their sustainable improvement, worsened by impacts from local weather change and points equivalent to food-price volatility, and exterior monetary shocks.
Constructing on the SAMOA Pathway, the brand new programme of motion will set out a complete improvement agenda for SIDS over the following ten years. Drawing on the outcomes of regional and interregional preparatory conferences, it’ll outline SIDS’ improvement priorities and the help required from the worldwide group to make the SIDS-led, SIDS-focused agenda achievable.
In recognition of their distinctive vulnerabilities to exterior shocks and stressors, the worldwide group designated SIDS a particular case for atmosphere and improvement, however after thirty years of this recognition and focused motion the scenario stays unchanged.
Co-chairs of the Preparatory Committee, Caroline Schwalger, Everlasting Consultant of New Zealand to the United Nations, and Dr. Ali Naseer Mohamed, Everlasting Consultant of the Maldives to the United Nations, reminded Member States of the gravity of the work forward of them and reiterated their dedication to steward negotiations towards an bold, action-oriented end result.
Chair of AOSIS, Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Pa’olelei Luteru of Samoa, acknowledged: “AOSIS advocates for a brand new and extra responsive UN for SIDS. This shall be important to ship a strong 10-year end result. SIDS’ survivability of the individuals, pure environments, and total sustainable improvement is underneath menace. The event challenges we face are far outpacing our potential to reply. We’re seemingly going from one occasion to a different, with out the time or potential to get well and regrow. We’re working out of time and working out of area to maneuver.
We sit right here with you immediately with a single request: resolve that the event of SIDS and our resilient prosperity offers a collective good, and allow us to act on that call all through the preparatory course of for the Fourth Convention and the last decade of motion to come back.”
Robust political dedication to the aspiration of SIDS was evident within the 42 statements from UN Member States and 22 statements from UN entities and different stakeholders. They highlighted the necessity for pressing motion to deal with the impacts of local weather change– that are existential for a lot of SIDS – to construct resilience, reform the worldwide monetary structure to allow SIDS to entry ample and sustainable finance, and alleviate the influence of exterior shocks.
Talking on behalf of the European Union, Stavros Lambrinidis, Head of the European Union Delegation to the United Nations mentioned the EU will “have interaction constructively within the negotiations on the SIDS4 end result doc” and that the EU is “dedicated to reaching sturdy, concrete outcomes for the SIDS for the following ten years.”
Talking on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ), James Larsen, Ambassador and Everlasting Consultant of Australia to the United Nations mentioned “CANZ extends our unwavering help for the upcoming course of to agree a brand new programme of motion that delivers significant outcomes for SIDS.”
Negotiations on the end result doc will proceed forward of the Second Preparatory Committee assembly on April 1 to five.
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