Geographical review - Vostok station. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa was created in 1996 to supersede the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development (IGADD) which was founded in 1986. The recurring and severe droughts and other natural disasters between 1974 and 1984 caused widespread famine, ecological degradation and economic hardship in the Eastern Africa region.
Although individual countries made substantial efforts to cope with the situation and received generous support from the international community, the magnitude and extent of the problem argued strongly for a regional approach to supplement national efforts. In 1983 and 1984, six countries in the Horn of Africa - Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda - took action through the United Nations to establish an intergovernmental body for development and drought control in their region.
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Countries. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. The World Factbook. Home. UNEP Islands Home Page. Maldives Travel Information and Travel Guide. Unrivalled luxury, stunning white-sand beaches and an amazing underwater world make the Maldives an obvious choice for a true holiday of a lifetime.
Unbelievable Beaches The Maldives is home to perhaps the best beaches in the world; they’re on almost every one of the country’s nearly 1200 islands and are so consistently perfect that it’s hard not to become blasé about them. While some beaches may boast softer granules than others, the basic fact remains: you’ll find this whiter-than-white powder sand and luminous cyan-blue water almost nowhere else on earth.
This fact alone is enough to bring nearly a million people a year to this tiny and otherwise little-known Indian Ocean paradise. Resorts for Everyone Every resort in the Maldives is its own private island, and with over 100 to choose from the only problem is selecting where to stay. Underwater World Independent Travel Read more. Alliance of Small Island States - Alliance of Small Island States. Www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/fiji/land.pdf. Resource/docs/natc/fjinc1.pdf. Maldives: for us climate change is a matter of survival.
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The Maldives, the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago that underwent a tumultuous regime change, says the “mistrust” between rich and poor nations on climate change negotiations needs to go and all countries should shun the blame game while dealing with an issue so critical to everyone’s survival, particularly small island nations like theirs. “There is lot of mistrust in climate change negotiations as developing countries think this is obstruction to their development while developed countries think this is going to challenge their economy and to bring them down,” Mohamed Aslam, who was the Maldavian environment minister till Tuesday’s regime change, told IANS in an interview. He was in the capital earlier for the Delhi Sustainable Summit. Maldives is part the Alliance of Small Island Nations (AOSIS), a 39-country grouping of island nations, which would be the first to be affected by rising sea levels due to global warming.
“We need to get away from suspicion. Www.sprep.org/att/irc/ecopies/pacific_region/665.pdf. Bluepeace Environmental NGO Maldives. Maldives News - Maldives History - Ultimate News Database.