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The policy brief focuses on climate change related threats that are most applicable to and most urgent for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). These are manifested through increasing vulnerability, development slowing or being reversed, loss of territory, (forced) migration, potential loss of sovereignty and of exclusive economic zones. Small island states, especially those developing ones are existentially threatened by climate change. Rising sea levels, stronger storms, floods and erosion are threatening to submerge them or make them otherwise uninhabitable or economically unviable in the foreseeable future. Leaders of several of these countries have already expressed concerns, especially the small islands of the Pacific, about the security of their nations and the future of their populations.

The Hague Institute for Global Justice