Links to relevant web resources on islands
ISLAND
INFORMATION RESOURCES in the UN system:
UNITED NATIONS
United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Small Island Developing
States
SIDSnet
(UN DESA)
United Nations Environment Programme
UNEP
SIDS
UNEP
Islands (this site)
UNEP
Tourism - Islands
UN
System-wide Earthwatch
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
FAO
SIDS
UNESCO - SIDS & Mauritius Strategy
implementation
UNESCO
Environment and development in coastal regions and in small islands (CSI)
http://www.unesco.org/csi
UNESCO
Small Islands Voice http://www.smallislandsvoice.org
UNESCO
Small Islands Voice - Youth (password required) http://www.sivyouth.org
UNESCO
SIDS http://www.unesco.org/en/sids
INTERGOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS OF SMALL ISLAND STATES
Alliance
of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Association
of Caribbean States (ACS) - Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean
Community (CARICOM)
Caribbean
Environment Programme (CEP) - Jamaica
Council
of Regional Organizations in the Pacific (CROP) - Pacific Islands
Forum
Fisheries Agency - Solomon Islands
Pacific
Islands Forum - Fiji
Secretariat
of the Pacific Community (SPC) - New Caledonia
South
Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) - Fiji
Secretariat
of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) - Samoa
OTHER ISLAND RESOURCES
Global Islands Network (GIN)
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Task Force on Island Conservation and Protected Areas (TAFICOPA)
Regional Seas Programmes include most small island States
Global Environment Outlook (GEO) Environment
Outlook reports for the major small island regions of the Caribbean, the
Indian Ocean and the South Pacific:
- Caribbean
Environment Outlook 1999
- Pacific
Islands Environment Outlook (pdf) 1999
- Western
Indian Ocean Environment Outlook (pdf) 1999
- Caribbean
Environment Outlook - 2004 (pdf
on UNEP web site)
- Pacific
Environment Outlook - 2004 (pdf
on UNEP web site)
- Atlantic
and Indian Ocean Environment Outlook - 2004
(pdf
on UNEP web site)
South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) appropriate for islands