Emerging Issues for Small Island Developing States: Results of the UNEP/UN DESA Foresight Process
- ISBN-10
- 9280733915
- ISBN-13
- 9789280733914
- Category
- Political Science / International Relations / General
- Pages
- 60
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Author
- United Nations Publications
Description
The 2012 UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Global Environmental Issues primarily identified emerging environmental issues and possible solutions on a global scale and perspective. In 2013, UNEP carried out a similar exercise to identify priority emerging environmental issues that are of concern to the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The social and economic emerging issues were also identified using the same set of criteria. At the core of the process was a SIDS Foresight Panel consisting of 11 SIDS experts (for the UNEP Panel) and 12 experts (for the UN DESA Panel) from the three SIDS regions, representing the global SIDS community and a wide range of disciplines. The process was designed to open the discussion on emerging environmental issues to a broad range of views both from the Foresight Panel and a wider community of relevant experts from across the globe. Through the Foresight Process, separate lists of 20 environmental and 15 socioeconomic emerging issues were identified and discussed in this report.
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