#SIDS4
Hello 👋🏾 Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬!!! Delighted to be here for UN’s 4th Intl Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS4). Hoping to help build real + tangible elements of technology, innovation, data sharing, capacity building, and more!
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May 27, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Extreme happiness is meeting the magical Auli’i Cravalho, the voice Disney’s Moana, but also Chief Impact Officer of SDG News, who moderated in our PVBLIC Foundation #SIDS4 session on the power of geospatial data to achieve regional resilience + global prosperity. See nexus of this at sids.sdg.org
May 27, 2024 at 11:20 PM
At #HLPF session on Africa, LDCs & LLDCs, Portugal shared how it's turning political commitment into action:
✅ UN fellowships - ocean, digital transf., and outer space
✅ Debt-for-climate swaps
✅ MVI & Go Beyond GDP
✅ Triangular cooperation
#FFD4 #LLDC3 #SIDS4 #LDC5 #SDGs
July 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Such a HUGE honor to just be in the same room as my heroine Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland & to hear her remarks at the 3rd Leaders Summit of the Local2030 Islands Network, #SIDS4 in Antigua 🇦🇬. We at Esri will continue to do our best to support locally driven and cultural informed solutions.
May 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
"Institutional capacity, useability of data, and evidence-based decision-making for #SustainableDevelopment in Small Island Developing States"
A new working paper with Kalim Shah for the #SIDS4 meeting via ODI.
odi.org/en/publicati...
 
#IslandStudies #SmallIslands #BigData #SmallData #Islands
May 29, 2024 at 9:11 AM
“Our smallness will not hold us back—not anymore.”

These words during the closing plenary echoed the many calls for urgency and resolve heard at #SIDS4.

The Conference formally adopted the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States.
Highlights and images for 30 May 2024
enb.iisd.org
May 31, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Roundtable: Bei der #SIDS4 diskutieren heute unsere #KAAK_DAI Kolleg:innen gemeinsam mit
@diplo.de, #GCCMobility und den Ständigen Vertretungen von Tuvalu sowie Palau bei den UN "Neue Technologien in der #Digitalisierung von durch #Klimawandel bedrohtem #Kulturerbe":

www.dainst.org/newsroom/kli...
May 27, 2024 at 7:39 AM
“The rhetoric has gotten better. The action? Not so much.”

#SIDS4 has given the international community the opportunity to move away from talking and ensure a future for #SIDS, if there is the necessary political will

Read the ENB summary now.
4th International Conference on SIDS
The conference has given the international community the opportunity to move away from talking and ensure a future for small island developing states, if there is the necessary political will.
enb.iisd.org
June 3, 2024 at 6:08 PM
#SIDS countries provide us with innovations, natural resources and indigenous knowledge that play a critical role in the health of our shared society.

Learn why the ongoing #SIDS4 Conference is a key opportunity for #SmallIslands and the world: desapublications.un.org/un-desa-voic...
Small islands ready for global spotlight and accelerated action at Antigua and Barbuda conference
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face major challenges—climate change, geographic remoteness, a narrow export base—that make them vulnerable to external economic, environmental, and social shocks...
desapublications.un.org
May 28, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Sub-National Island Jurisdictions Agreement Signed Ahead of Landmark Forum

An agreement related to the creation of the 1st Forum for Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) has been signed ahead of the Global Sustainable Island Summit (GSIS) co-hosted with Island Innovation and St. Kitts and…
Sub-National Island Jurisdictions Agreement Signed Ahead of Landmark Forum
An agreement related to the creation of the 1st Forum for Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) has been signed ahead of the Global Sustainable Island Summit (GSIS) co-hosted with Island Innovation and St. Kitts and Nevis in May this year. The Forum is being heralded as a key stepping stone following discussions at the COP29 UN Climate Summit in Azerbaijan and the SIDS4 conference in Antigua & Barbuda last year,  focused on improving access to climate finance for SNIJs.
www.721news.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
While small island developing states have made some advancements in areas like energy and transport in recent years, ICT capacity has shown notable progress.
 
Full article by UNCTAD Director Paul Akiwumi: ow.ly/P5mM50RX3qr
 
#SIDS4
May 29, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Small island developing states face systemic risks, climate disasters, high debt & reliance on imports.
 
UNCTAD strategy focuses on policy research, technical cooperation, capacity building & advocacy to achieve sustainable development. ▶️ ow.ly/N4oM50RXZuT

#SIDS4
May 28, 2024 at 12:17 PM
#SIDS4 has just concluded and the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda - a ten year sustainable development agenda for small islands - has been adopted 🌊

Rueanna Haynes breaks down the outcome and why it prioritises climate in a new piece in Devex.
www.devex.com/news/opinion...
www.devex.com
May 31, 2024 at 8:49 AM
An #HLPF ministerial segment Monday focused on the journey from the SDG Summit to the Summit of the Future and hopes for the acceleration of the #2030Agenda and the #SDGs on the back of #SIDS4 and the Second World Summit on Social Development
Highlights and images for 15 July 2024
enb.iisd.org
July 16, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Despite many at #SIDS4 lauding the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States, an evening forum showed divergent views on whether the outcome document truly reflects the views and needs of civil society… and perhaps #SIDS themselves
Highlights and images for 29 May 2024
enb.iisd.org
May 30, 2024 at 3:10 AM
The pace picked up at #SIDS4 Tuesday as delegates chose to hear country statements or attend interactive dialogues, a high-level meeting, or a special event

Given the 10-year gap between Conferences, the chance for extended conversations seemed welcome

#SIDS #climate #islands
Highlights and images for 28 May 2024
enb.iisd.org
May 29, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Participants at #SIDS4 heard urgent calls for action to address the climate crisis which is threatening the existence of #SIDS, including appeals to implement the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index to help secure access to concessionary financing.
Highlights and images for 27 May 2024
enb.iisd.org
May 28, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Hello 👋🏾 Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬!!! Delighted to be here for UN’s 4th Intl Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS4). Hoping to help build real + tangible elements of technology, innovation, data sharing, capacity building, and more! Cc @OceanDiscLeague
November 7, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Aloha @SciDiplomacyUSA! I am here at #SIDS4 also supporting @PvblicF but am also one of your new Science Envoys! Hope we can connect!
Hello 👋🏾 Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬!!! Delighted to be here for UN’s 4th Intl Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS4). Hoping to help build real + tangible elements of technology, innovation, data sharing, capacity building, and more! Cc @OceanDiscLeague
November 7, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Aloha @SciDiplomacyUSA! I am here at #SIDS4 also, supporting @PvblicF but am also one of your new Science Envoys! Hope we can at least DM!
Extreme happiness is meeting the magical Auli’i Cravalho, the voice @DisneyAnimation’s Moana, but also Chief Impact Officer of @SDGNews_ , who moderated in our @PvblicF #SIDS4 session on the power of geospatial data to achieve regional resilience + global prosperity.
November 7, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Hello 👋🏾 Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬!!! Delighted to be here for UN’s 4th Intl Conference of Small Island Developing States (SIDS4). Hoping to help build real + tangible elements of technology, innovation, data sharing, capacity building, and more! Cc @OceanDiscLeague
November 7, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Extreme happiness is meeting the magical Auli’i Cravalho, the voice @DisneyAnimation’s Moana, but also Chief Impact Officer of @SDGNews_ , who moderated in our @PvblicF #SIDS4 session on the power of geospatial data to achieve regional resilience + global prosperity.
November 7, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Such a HUGE honor to just be in the same room as my heroine @SecDebHaaland & to hear her remarks at the 3rd Leaders Summit of the @Local2030IN at #SIDS4. We at Esri will continue to support locally driven + cultural informed solutions
@Esri_Conserv @EsriFederalGovt @Local2030
November 7, 2024 at 4:13 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to @PvblicF as the SIDS Global Data Hub (lower right) #SIDS4 is featured in Jack Dangermond’s opening catalog of great work that users are doing
November 7, 2024 at 3:37 PM