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SMALL ISLAND developing states recently took their needs list for priority actions to safeguard their climate security at the upcoming climate change conference (COP28) global.
Topping the list is enhanced access to financing and the implementation of the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI).
The MVI, the development and implementation of which the United Nations has been working with SIDS, is described as a tool to help small islands secure, among other things, concessionary financing to survive the climate crisis, improve national level planning, debt servicing, and compensation schemes. It has also been championed as being able to provide a better measurement for ecological and economic vulnerability for inclusive sustainable development.
The needs were the subject of discussion at the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) Leaders Meeting, hosted on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22 in New York.