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Youths for SIDS Development

by | 17-11-2014 21:26


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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are the countries at the coastal region surrounded by the oceans around and are at the most vulnerable condition of present condition of climate change. It has been declared 2014 as International year of Small Island Developing States by United Nations General Assembly so as to work for the reduction of the possible risks and reduce impacts of the climate change which mostly affects these island states. With the slogan ?Raise your Voice, not the sea level? it has been celebrated the World Environment Day and its main aim is to make people aware about the present scenario of climate change and global warming and to make people to raise their voice for working to reduce and mitigate the impacts of changing environment.


For the effective running of the programs and activities to make successful there is the great role of the youth. Youths are the pioneer for the action as they are with full of the enthusiasm and willingness to work and also the best medium to make people aware and to make them participate in the different programs. As in the present condition for the proper planning and action for the mitigation of the impacts of the climate change and for the overall development of the SIDS, youth can be the best medium for the action. They can play major role in the economic development of island countries through the action on the climate change, environmental degradation and natural hazards risk reduction. SIDS lie at the forefront of climate change impacts, sea-level rise, extreme weather patterns and ocean acidification, largely due to the continued burning of fossil fuels by developed nations. They are vulnerable to the global temperature rise, rise in the sea level and different climatic variability. In this situation there is lot of things to be done and youths should play the important role for that.


Youth should come together and with the collaboration with the government and other NGO/INGOs they should plan for the combine action to strengthen programs and projects to monitor and improve predictive capacity for climate change, climate variability and sea level rise, and to assess the impacts of climate change on marine resources, freshwater and agricultural production. Youths can help in developing strategies and measures on adaptation to climate change as well as the development of technical guidelines and methodologies to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change. Also, to make the environmentally sound condition and make people to go for the green environment and towards green economy by making access to alternative technology of conserving energy and energy efficient technology to assist for the development of small island developing states. Youths can have research, monitoring, surveying and assessment in the areas of the major climatic variability and the role of the oceans in the tidal variations and change in the climate and after having proper study can formulate integrated strategies for the sustainable management, mitigation and adaptation strategies for the reduction of the impacts of climate change. 


SIDS is renowned for their species diversity and endemism. However, due to the small size, isolation and fragility of island ecosystems, their biological diversity is among the most threatened in the world. Degradation of the limited land area due to a variety of factors, including overuse on a limited resource base, deforestation due to unsustainable commercial logging and conversion to agricultural has also contributed to the change in the climatic conditions also due to overpopulation and gases coming out of vehicles and industries has also contributed to the increase in the environmental pollution. This ultimately results in the increase in the atmospheric temperature leading to global warming and rise in the sea levels which ultimately threatened the lives of the people of SIDS and also may be vulnerable condition even to sink the whole country. So here might be the great role of the youths to promote by involving the local community for the conservation of the biodiversity by concentrating on educational strategies that creates awareness by revealing them about the importance on conservation of the environment. Also providing training and other capacity building opportunity for the community people of SIDS in order to ensure watershed and coastal protection, reduce land degradation, for conservation Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE script>X-NONEscript> of biological diversity and for eco-tourism and other sustainable development opportunities, such as sustainable agriculture and economic development.

Thus, youth can play various role by reducing the impacts of the climate change by collaborating with the national policies and involving local communities in mitigation and adaptation of climate change and also creating mass awareness about the negative impacts of the land degradation and pollution and increasing afforestation programs and also by promoting the involvement of NGOs, indigenous people and other different groups in the conservation and sustainable use biodiversity for the sustainable SIDS.