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Africa-Press<\/a> – Mauritius<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Come visit the Maldives, its president entreated the world at this year\u2019s United Nations General Assembly, moments before switching to an impassioned plea for help combatting climate change.<\/p>\n

The adjacent appeals illustrated a central dilemma for many small island developing states: their livelihoods, or their lives?
\nThe United Nations recognises 38 member states, scattered across the world\u2019s waters, as small island developing states grouped together because they face \u201cunique social, economic and environmental challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n

This bloc is particularly vulnerable to climate change. This bloc is also particularly dependent on tourism \u2013 a significant driver of climate change, accountable for eight per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions alone, according to sustainable tourism expert Stefan G\u00f6ssling \u2013 and an industry devastated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The predicament these islands find themselves in is essentially recursive: Attract tourism for economic survival, which in turn contributes to climate change, which in turn bleaches the colourful reefs and destroys the pristine beaches that attract tourists.<\/p>\n

As is, by the end of the century, these low-lying islands could drown entirely. \u201cThe difference between 1.5 degrees and two degrees is a death sentence for the Maldives,\u201d President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih told the UN General Assembly last week.<\/p>\n

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\nSign up for The Gleaner\u2019s morning and evening newsletters. The annual summit is an opportunity for each of the international body\u2019s 193 members to step into the spotlight on the world stage.<\/p>\n

But the Maldives \u2013 perhaps best known globally as an Indian Ocean playground for moneyed honeymooners and Bollywood celebrities \u2013 had a particularly high-profile platform this year. Its foreign minister is serving as the General Assembly\u2019s president and Solih was speaking third overall \u2013 just after US President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

\u2018Slow-moving killer\u2019
\nBut the climate change appeals are nothing new, made year after year as these islands are pummelled by storms and the seas rise like a \u201cslow-moving killer,\u201d as Colgate University\u2019s April Baptiste puts it.<\/p>\n

Baptiste, a professor of environmental studies as well as Africana and Latin American studies, researches environmental justice in the Caribbean region.<\/p>\n

She says the island states\u2019 appeals had gone ignored for years because they were essentially seen as \u201cdispensable\u201d. With little land, political power and financial capital, it was easy to overlook their plight.<\/p>\n

These are also islands with a history of exploitation that dates back centuries and states whose full-time residents \u2013 not tourists \u2013 are primarily black and brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have that layer of race, racism, marginality to take into consideration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely believe that\u2019s at the heart of the conversation as to why small island developing states are not taken seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201d
\nPeople and governments have taken matters into their own hands over recent years.<\/p>\n

One man from the island nation of Kiribati sought refugee status in New Zealand on the basis that climate change posed an existential threat to his homeland, though he was eventually deported.<\/p>\n

This past week, Vanuatu announced it would seek to bring climate change before the International Court of Justice. Although largely symbolic \u2013 any ruling would not be legally binding \u2013 the move, as intended by the government, seeks to clarify international law.<\/p>\n

Last month, a group of Pacific island nations \u2013 contending with encroaching salt water that destroys crops and pollutes freshwater supplies \u2013 took the step of declaring their traditional sea boundaries would remain intact, even if their coastlines shrank beneath the waves.<\/p>\n

G\u00f6ssling, a professor at Sweden\u2019s Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics, and Daniel Scott, a geography and environmental management professor at Canada\u2019s University of Waterloo, are two creators of the Climate Change Vulnerability Index for Tourism.<\/p>\n

With the aim of bringing the issue to policymakers\u2019 attention, they identified the countries with tourism economies most at risk from climate change. The small island developing states made up a substantial portion of the list.<\/p>\n

Tourism development
\n\u201cThe Maldives identified this years ago and they pointed out: \u2018We\u2019re going to continue our tourism development, because that\u2019s the only way we can make money in the next couple decades before our islands are lost,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

For the small island developing states, this central climate change tension between lives and livelihood is mirrored in their response to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

To prevent the virus\u2019 spread and save lives, they closed their borders, and their tourism-focused economies were accordingly ravaged over the past 18 months.<\/p>\n

Mauritius isn\u2019t wholly dependent on tourism, but that sector does make up a significant amount of its foreign revenue, the permanent representative to the United Nations for the tiny Indian Ocean island east of Madagascar says.<\/p>\n

Its borders should fully reopen in October, and Jagdish Koonjul said Mauritius hopes to attract 650,000 tourists between then and next summer. Mauritius, Koonjul said, is \u201cvery lucky\u201d compared to others in the bloc because of its economic diversification, relatively high land and coral reef that prevents erosion.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not safe from climate change. Mauritius and other small island developing states are looking to the bigger, more industrialised countries to buy into an ambitious commitment at the upcoming United Nations climate conference in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe miss this train now, and we are doomed,\u201d Koonjul said. The scores of speeches at this year\u2019s UN General Assembly tended to follow a rubric.<\/p>\n

They opened with pleasantries directed at the General Assembly\u2019s president and then touched on a laundry list of topics: perhaps a pet issue, but definitely conflict, coronavirus and climate change.<\/p>\n

The rhetoric often blended together, but the speeches from the leaders of the small island developing states \u2013 with the most to lose in the near future \u2013 stood out with stark eloquence echoing Koonjul.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill Tuvalu remain a member state of the UN if it is finally submerged? Who will help us?\u201d asked Kausea Natano, the prime minister of the Pacific Ocean country, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Specific asks
\nThe states had specific asks, including immediate and significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, debt restructuring and financial assistance \u2013 especially given the impact of the coronavirus on their tourism-dependent economies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndustrialised countries have an obligation to assist the states most affected by climate change because they created a problem in the first instance,\u201d Gaston Browne, prime minister of the Caribbean Sea\u2019s Antigua and Barbuda, said Saturday.<\/p>\n

The same day, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves cast the major powers\u2019 actions thus far as little more than \u201cpious mouthings and marginal tinkering\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn this, humanity is at the midnight hour. Can we meet the challenge? We may not live to find out the answer if the usual continues,\u201d the Caribbean nation\u2019s premier said.<\/p>\n

Salvaging the economic fate of these countries is complex. Baptiste says there\u2019s no overarching policy aimed at retraining people whose livelihoods are vulnerable in new trades.<\/p>\n

And G\u00f6ssling argues that, while they\u2019re not the culprits behind global warming, the small island developing states, SIDS, aren\u2019t directly confronting the friction between climate change-prevention measures and their tourism reliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also think there\u2019s never been serious efforts by the SIDS to actually also consider different economic sectors, because very often it\u2019s been very self-evident that you would focus on tourism, you would develop for tourism and that you, by definition, then almost would become dependent on tourism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think the strange thing \u2013 this conflict has never been vocalised by SIDS.<\/p>\n

\u201d
\nSubstantive action
\nWhat has been vocalised is a clarion call for substantive action to be taken by rich, developed countries.<\/p>\n

Now that the ramifications of climate change have reached countries that could long pretend it didn\u2019t exist, the small island developing states hope the message is finally getting through. The poet John Donne wrote that \u201cno man is an island entire of itself.<\/p>\n

\u201d In the same vein, Solih drove home the point the island nations have been making for years: \u201cThere is no guarantee of survival for any one nation in a world where the Maldives cease to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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