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Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change How developing countries are adapting or preparing to adapt to the impacts of global climate change

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While climate change has become a hot-topic in the media today, few have experienced the ravaging impacts first-hand as much as the citizens of Small Island developing states (SIDS). The low-lying lands, inherent susceptibility to natural disasters, excessive dependence on trade, sheer remoteness of location and small but rapidly growing populations of these Islands makes them more vulnerable than most regions to the effects of climate change even though they do very little to contribute to the causes. Before Hurricane Ivan swept through the Caribbean Island of Grenada in 2004, the Island'...

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