Pacific Power. The IPCC Report and Its Implications for the Pacific, by Hon. Tom Roper, 2007. (PDF, 291 KB)
Energy
Release:
Tom Roper describes how three West Indian nations
are planning to reduce their dependence on imported fuel and
exploit their own sustainable energy supplies.
CDM Investment Newsletter. “Small
Island States, the CDM and Carbon Finance,” by Hon.
Tom Roper. March,
2005. (PDF, 166 KB)
“Most SIDS are specially suited to utilize combinations
of modern renewable energy options, and it would seem that
this, together with energy efficiency and the CDM would be
a slam dunk for SIDS. What then is happening? The answer
for most is very little….”
New Academy Review. “The
Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative,” by
Hon. Tom Roper. (PDF, 71 KB)
“Ambassador Slade challenged the Climate Institute,
a Washington DC-based NGO, to work with AOSIS. As a result,
the Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative (GSEII),
a consortium of international NGOs and multilateral institutions,
has been organized to support SIDS and potential private
investors and donors by bringing renewable energy and energy
efficiency projects, models, and concepts together into national
sustainable energy plans…”
New Academy Review. “The
Small Island States: The Challenge of Energy,” by
His Excellency Enele S. Sopoaga, Permanent Representative
of Tuvalu to the United Nations, Vice Chairman of the Alliance
of Small Island States. (PDF, 71 KB)
“Members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
want to do much more than complain about the need for developed
countries to reduce their emissions. They want to demonstrate
that, although their emissions are small, they can set an
example to the rest of the world by replacing their own fossil
fuel CO2 emissions through the use of clean energy…”
Tiempo Climate Newswatch. “Global
Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative,” by Hon.
Tom Roper.
“Most Small Island Developing States are already ill-equipped
to deal with their existing environmental problems, such
as coastal and coral degradation, explosive population growth,
overdevelopment and pollution. These problems will worsen
as the impacts of land submergence, beach erosion, coral
damage and storms take their toll. Climate change threatens
the very existence of many AOSIS members even though they
are the innocent, the smallest emitters of greenhouse gases.
Nations such as the Maldives, Tuvalu and Kiribati are just
a few meters above sea level…”
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