UN chief laments the plight of small islands in climate context

• It is ‘obscene’ that small island states should pay for the fossil fuel industry’s greed: UN Secretary General.

Highlights:

• Small island states, which are on the front line of climate change, should’nt pay for the fossil fuel industry’s greed and competition between major economies.
• Their unique geography puts you at the mercy of climate chaos, rising sea levels and land degradation, the UN Secretary General said at the fourth Small Island Developing States (SIDS) summit in Antigua and Barbuda.
• Climate change is an existential crisis for the entire human family, but SIDES are on the front lines.
• SIDS is a conference of 39 states, whose populations number roughly 65 million people.
• SIDS ( Small Island Developing States) are extremely vulnerable to climate change but not rich enough to stop it on their own.
• One key hope from the summit is increased climate financing — though many criticize the slow pace of fulfilling previous UN aid pledges.

Prelims Takeaway:

• SIDS
• Climate Change