An important story as #WorldBank meetings go on in Washington DC. We are still far off achieving #climatejustice for small island states, which face📈debt and climate impacts

Here's hoping we see less $ spent on conflict & more on climate action and development in 2024.

Debt is strangling developing nations vulnerable to #ClimateChange , a new report shows - read this Inside Climate News exclusive report & interview with ODI's Emily Wilkinson👇 #IMF #WorldBank #G20 insideclimatenews.org/news/16042024/…

Debt crisis in #SIDS event at #WBGMeetings is ongoing. Tune in 👉 un.org/ohrlls/sites/w… to learn about Debt Sustainability Support Services championed by Antigua & Barbuda & Maldives Mission NY w/ IIED ODI UN-OHRLLS AOSIS Ireland at UN

Debt is strangling SIDS, limiting their ability to adapt to #ClimateChange Read this Inside Climate News report on RESI's new research 📷
#IMF #WorldBank #G20 insideclimatenews.org/news/16042024/……

NEW PODCAST🎙️

Ep. 7 of #SmallIslandsBigPicture explores why Small Island Developing States are so dependent on shipping, and how they are experiencing recent changes in maritime industries.

Listen: buff.ly/43WS6NA

@emilycwillkinson ODIclimate viliame kasanawaqa Orlando Allard

Terrific, really well-researched piece in Guardian news today about the #sargassum challenge in the Caribbean

theguardian.com/environment/20…

The first day of the #SIDS FutureForum is coming to an end as we are close to wrapping up all discussions with a session on “ #SIDS Future Forum Reflections and the Way Forward”.

Learn more: islandinnovation.co/events/sids-fu…

Some of our speakers: Emily Wilkinson, Courtney Lindsay, Rebecca Fabrizi, Walton Aubrey Webson, Simona Marinescu, Preeya Mohan, Gail Hurley, Dan Hammett, Sarah Peck, Karuna Rana, viliame kasanawaqa, ωɪʟʟɪᴀᴍ ωᴀϙᴀᴠᴀᴋᴀᴛᴏɢᴀ, and Amitav Acharya

The first #SIDS Future Forum has started top of the morning in New York with a large participation of academics, SIDS officials & United Nations. Do register & join online. ODI AOSIS Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Emily Wilkinson islandinnovation.co/events/sids-fu…

*New #SmallIslandsBigPicture ' Podcast out now!*

Emily Wilkinson and I ask the experts how the Fourth UN SIDS Conference in Antigua-Barbuda ('SIDS4') can generate 'resilient prosperity'

odi.org/en/insights/sm…

Island Innovation 🏝️ Simona Marinescu Antigua & Barbuda NY AOSIS UN-OHRLLS

Next week ODI Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) co-hosts the first ever **SIDS FUTURE FORUM** to help shape the 4th UN Conference on SIDS + the Antigua-Barbuda Accord (ABAS)

Island Innovation 🏝️ UN-OHRLLS AOSIS

Register here: odi.org/en/events/smal…

Island Innovation 🏝️ is co-hosting Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative's #SIDSFutureForum 2024, a 2-day event focused on high-priority issues faced by island states ahead of the #SIDS4 Conference.

Register for 🆓to attend Day 1 of the online event taking place on 4th March: islandinnovation.co/events/sids-fu…

🏆'Climate Blueprint: Dominica' has been officially selected for the Best Indie Film category at the Best Film Awards 2023.

Co-produced by ODI's Emily Wilkinson alongside Sarah (Gerber) Howard.

Watch the trailer here: buff.ly/3txb52W

Episode 5 of our ⁦ODI⁩ RESI Small Islands, Big Picture podcast out now: with myself and ⁦Emily Wilkinson⁩ asking who is responsible for dealing with the high debt burdens in many small island developing states? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sma…

Credit-ratings downgrades trigger sell-offs and market volatility when countries can least afford it. Yet the ratings agencies are neither transparent nor competitive, lament Emily Wilkinson and Kanni Wignaraja. bit.ly/4abDQmF

During the pandemic, 11/16 #SIDS – particularly vulnerable 2climate change – faced either a downgrade 👎🏼 or a negative credit outlook by at least 1️⃣ of the big 3️⃣ credit-ratings agencies. This has hampered both economic-development & climate-adaptation efforts - Emily Wilkinson…

'Credit Ratings and Climate Chaos'. ODI's Emily Wilkinson and UNDP's Kanni Wignaraja argue that credit agencies must reform their approach, or risk heaping more punishment on island nations for a climate crisis they didn't cause: project-syndicate.org/commentary/cre… ODI UN Development #COP28

.Emily Wilkinson and Kanni Wignaraja deplore the biases and lack of transparency that shape the decisions of credit-ratings agencies – decisions that are often catastrophic for climate-vulnerable developing economies. bit.ly/47LZP1Y

'We have the support, we have the willpower - now we need the finance.'

ODI's Emily Wilkinson interviewing #Dominica Minister Cozier Frederick about the documentary Climate Blueprint: Dominica at #COP28 yesterday. Find out more here: odi.org/en/insights/do…

‘Small island states resent sometimes clumsy attempts by America to use them to project hard power—and to press them to resist Chinese proposals. And although China comes with goodies that SIDS badly want, that country’s actions can be clumsy, too.’ economist.com/international/…