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Environment in Samoa

  • Climate change challenges

    SAMOA, 2013/07/01 As part of the Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA's) contribution to the forthcoming third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the African Centre for Climate Change Policy (ACPC) is preparing a study that takes a comprehensive look at climate and development challenges in SIDS. According to a statement from the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-based ECA, the SIDS conference will hold in Apia, Samoa, in 2014 to focus the world’s attention on a group of nations that remain a appropriate case for sustainable development, in view of their incomparable and particular vulnerabilities.