Historic Archipelagic and Island States Forum: Uniting for COP28
| Leaders of Indonesia and several smaller island nations convened for a “historic” gathering to unify and amplify their voices ahead of the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Dubai.Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his counterparts from East Timor, Tuvalu, Niue, Sao Tome and Principe and the Federated states of Micronesia joined “the first high-level meeting” of the Archipelagic and Island States (AIS) Forum on the Indonesian island of Bali. The deputy prime ministers of Fiji and Tonga also attended.Article retrieved from asia.nikkei.com Read more here |
Photo Credit (above): Stacey Alvarez de la Campa, Island Innovation Community Manager, at AIS
| Island Innovation Community Manager Stacey Alvarez de la Campa was an invited speaker at the Archipelagic and Island States Forum |
| As part of their 2023 Summit, the Archipelagic and Island States Forum convened the highly-anticipated Startup Blue Business Summit in Bali, Indonesia last week. This year, the theme was “Our Ocean, Our Future: An Ocean of Solutions for the Island States”.Island Innovation’s Community Manager Stacey Alvarez de le Campa participated in a panel discussion on catalysing investment in blue solutions. Her presentation focused on highlighting the potential sources of funding for Island States, including venture capital and international aid. She also shared insights about the future outlook in funding and investment opportunities to implement solutions geared towards the Blue Economy. The solutions that garnered the most interest from the audience were: The role of nature-based solutions in managing risk The increasing importance of blended finance Embracing the new paradigm of focusing on a social return of investments, rather than a purely financial one The core of Stacey’s message was that, based on the emerging evolutions in the financial sector that are being created by islands, it is time to reject the term “Small Island Developing State” but instead, fully identify as “Large Ocean States”. |
New genetic tools mark another step on the road to industrial-scale coral farming
| For eons, farmers have bred plants and animals for specific qualities: to thrive in hotter climates or colder; wetter or drier; to produce more food. Now there is growing pressure to do that with wild creatures in order to help them endure life in the Anthropocene. Nowhere is this more evident than with coral, the cornerstone of the ocean’s most productive and imperilled ecosystem. |
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International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
| ‘Islands’ real estate is the sea”, said Deputy Premier and Minister of Home Affairs, Government of Bermuda, Hon. Walter Roban at the Virtual Island Summit 2023.Our closeness to the open sea is a blessing, but climate change is giving us a glimpse of what could be a global curse. We need to act in order to protect susceptible regions from the effects of climate change. |
| Helping “developing countries cope with the tremendous financial burden caused by the climate crisis”, as cited by the Loss and Damage Fund (Only One x Alliance of Small Island States, AOSIS, campaign). Last week was the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. Islands in the Caribbean region did, and are continually doing their part. Antigua and Barbuda and St. Vincent and the Grenadines hosted a full week of activities dedicated to this international day. |
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