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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Amelie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS

World's Island States Meet To Confront Climate, Fiscal Challenges

Antigua and Barbuda will host Monday's conference of the Small Island Developing States (Credit: AFP)

Extremely vulnerable to climate change, not rich enough to stop it on their own, and not poor enough to depend on aid and development financing: the world's small island countries are bracing for both fiscal and climate shocks.

Both will be high on the agenda this week as Small Island Developing States (SIDS), as they're formally known, meet Monday at their fourth UN Conference, in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

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