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The World Bank is calling for urgent action to help small island developing states (SIDS) deal with the effects of climate change as leaders from the nations meet in Antigua this week.
The bank's Global Director of Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy, Valerie Hickey, tells Inter Press Service that SIDS are "where tomorrow happens today," a nod to their role as " innovation incubators" who must adapt to climate change through the creative and sustainable use of natural capital, biodiversity, and nature-based solutions.
"We don't talk enough about the fact that small islands are where natural capital is the engine of jobs and GDP," she says.
"It is fisheries.
It is nature-based tourism.
These are critically important for most of the small islands and ultimately deliver not just jobs and GDP but are going to be the only technology for adaptation that is available and affordable, and affordability matters for small islands."
The UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General of the Climate Action Team says the world has the "tools, solutions, technologies, and finance" to help SIDS, but it's not too late to make amends, reports IPS.
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