Today is #TropicsDay 🏝️ Many of the world's small island developing States are located in the tropics. They are home to diverse cultures and biodiversity. But their way of life is under threat from shouldering the burdens of the #ClimateCrisis. 🔎bit.ly/2BTEBVJ

“Inlets open and close, shoals advance and retreat, sands shift and islands roll.” Cape Lookout, one of the few remaining undeveloped barrier island systems in the world, controlled by the forces of nature... My professional passion (is not) on vacation. #Impact4Islands

Are you joining the #VirtualIslandSummit? 🌊 🌴 10,000 islanders from all over the world are coming together to share strategies for rebuilding their economies more sustainabily after the challenges of 2020. ➡️ Sign up FREE: virtualislandsummit.com Island Innovation 🏝️ #Islanders

🏝️ Join us on Wednesday 9th September for the Island Innovation 🏝️ Virtual Island Summit 2020 "Plenary Session – Island Collaboration and Planning for the Future". ➡️ Make sure to register for FREE at islandinnovation.co/event/plenary-… #VirtualEvent #SustainableDevelopment

Islands are about to connect like never before. Join me & 10k others from 500 islands & 150 speakers for the Virtual Island Summit (7-13 Sept) organized by Island Innovation 🏝️ It's free. It's online. Come share your challenges and solutions. Let's connect. islandinnovation.co/summit/

Through the #ClimatePromise, UN Development is in action supporting 110+ govts to enhance countries' #ClimateActionNow plans to limit global temp rise to rise to 1.5 °C & course a path towards a green future #ForPeopleForPlanet 👉ow.ly/ypCA50Bhrrq #UNDPEB

I had the pleasure of speaking in the opening of the #VirtualIslandSummit alongside H.E. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines & H.E. Irfan Ali, President of Guyana. I made the case for why the time is now for targeted & effective support to #SIDS.

Small islands states🏝️are at the frontlines of #ClimateAction demonstrating ambition & leadership 🌱UN Development supports #SIDS' #GreenRecovery through: ➡️ Transforming #energy sectors ➡️ Bolstering #climate change adaptation and resilience ➡️ Leveraging #nature nature-based solutions

Happy 5th anniversary of the 17 #SDGs ! A blueprint for peace, prosperity and the planet that’s more relevant now than ever...and often seems like a Rubik’s cube... tricky, interconnected but solvable... (Illustration by Lyka Cabatay) #Impact4Islands #SIDS

🏝️Small island developing States are also widely known as large ocean States. 🌊They are stewards of vast ocean spaces which hold critical marine resources. By helping them better manage the ocean, we help the world preserve biodiversity🐳🦈🐠 and ensure bold #ClimateAction.

⏰Join UN-OHRLLS and World Ocean Council for a SIDS GBN webinar on partnership opportunities for the #BlueEconomy transition in Small Island Developing States 🏝️ 🕚11-12:30 EST 🗓️ 11 Dec. 2020 🎟️Register: bit.ly/39NIoD8 #PartnerSIDS

Join us for the next Conversations that Matter, featuring Arno Boersma, as he shares his experiences in creating networks of Island nations as they tackle challenges in economic development, sustainability, and plastic pollution: bit.ly/3bwehRw #CUIKNS

We’re losing 60,000 football fields worth of forest every day. But there are solutions & we each have the power to make a difference. Join me & call on @flaviodino via #KeepItGreenSam to stop deforestation, empower indigenous communities & protect the Amazon. Let’s get to work!🌳

🚨Podcast out now! @adelle_SIDS #Climate Scientist, Lead Author of #IPCCReport: Hurricane Dorian flattened my grandparents’ home. 1.5ToStayAlive is incredibly real for #SmallIslands - it's life or death. 🎧 aosis.org/aosis-islands-… youtu.be/HfDJf6fUmZM tinyurl.com/hhsrby6r

Join the #VirtualIslandSummit this week! Be part of a global effort to share ideas, best practices and strategies for #sustainabledevelopment! Register for free: bit.ly/VIS2021_ See the full agenda: bit.ly/live_agenda

Tuvalu's foreign minister gave a speech to #COP26 standing knee-deep in seawater. "It's actually an area that used to be land in the past, so I thought it would be significant to deliver that statement from that location," Simon Kofe said. cnn.it/3bSqb7h

Heb je 5 minuten voor een paar vragen om een project ogv duurzaamheid mede vorm te geven? Aanleiding: terug in NL - na 10+ jr in VS - dacht ik met meer gemak hier duurzame keuzes te kunnen maken. Dat viel tegen. Link naar de vragen: lnkd.in/eb5wwq9G Veel dank! #duurzaam

Inspiring movie night on #SDGActionDay… thought-provoking #DutyofCare docu The Hague Humanity Hub Director Nic Balthazar abt the cases: “All the money in the world can’t buy you justice if you’re on the wrong side of history.”

Vote for this great piece of street art for best of 2022, a statement of sustainability, circularity and seeing waste as a raw material… Artwork by Studio Giftig - Street Art Cities streetartcities.com/cities/tilburg…

Under skillful leadership of Rena Lee 🇸🇬, a historical agreement was reached at United Nations on a global treaty for the protection of the #oceans #KingdomNL led the negotiations on environmental impact assessments and was part of the 🇪🇺EU at UN-NY negotiating team #IGC #BBNJ #biodiversity