Small Island Developing States
Small Iceland Developing States ( SIDS Small Island Developing States ) are after a United Nations definition of a group of 51 small island states and shallow coastal littoral states in Africa, the Caribbean and Oceania, which share a similar socio-economic situation and are exposed to the same dangers. You have a total population of about 43 million people. Some of these states formed in 1990 for the Alliance of Small Iceland States ( AOSIS ).
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These states are ecologically very sensitive, and are reflected for example by environmental disasters in their development over again. In addition, island states are particularly affected by global warming. According to experts, the temperature will rise over the next 100 years by an average of 3 ° C, which would mean a 65 cm sea-level rise. With such a level large and important parts of the territory of countries such as the Maldives, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Micronesia and Tonga would be flooded. Another consequence of climate change would be an increase in the intensity of storms such as monsoons or tropical cyclones, which would wipe out entire harvests and livelihoods in the worst case. It drops these mini-states already hard from the outset to build with their modest size and population of an economic industry, which in turn makes the most to developing countries. Only a few countries, such as Mauritius, manage to create a nearly intact economics over economic specialization, but even in this case, it now goes downhill again.
Together with the developing countries without access to the sea ( LLDCs ) and the very poor countries of the world (LDC ), the SIDSs since 2001 by a High Representative of the OHRLLS ( " Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Iceland Developing States " ) represents. Due to a resolution of the UN General Assembly this office has been established at the seat of the World Organization in New York to assist in coordinating the various action programs for these groups of countries.