Islands in climatic danger
The Islands that the world talks about the least often are the most affected. The ministers of the Marshall Islands, Grenada and the Maldives have raised yet another alarm over the situation of the isolated mini-states which are suffering at the forefront of the impacts of climate change. The Minister of Fisheries and Environment of the Government of Granada, Roland Bhola, said on World Environment Day devoted this year to small island states: "We already have to face the effects of the rise in the level of the sea ".
Islands and a continuing decline:
As the warming worsens day by day it causes near the islands a decline in fish resources and therefore the activity of fishermen but in addition it would create salinization of fresh water reserves. While the objective of the conferences at Bonne relate to the form that the future could take with the desire to stop global warming, it would seem that current emissions are taking us towards a 4 ° warming. So the people all rise up orally to show their discontent through the slogan "Raise your voice, not sea level". In a published report, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) estimates that tens of thousands of dollars a year may cause economic losses to small islands due to global warming. In addition, the destruction of beaches by global warming causes great loss in the maritime environment, tourism,… and this is pointed out to us in a report which shows us that if the sea rises by 50 centimeters it could lead to the loss of 60 % of Granada's beaches. In addition the small islands will suffer from the decline in fish populations because the local populations of these islands often feed on local fishing, this will therefore cause many food imports. Certain island states, between 1993 and 2009, we saw a rise in the level of the western Pacific sea of 12 mm per year which corresponds to 4 times the average on the scale of the planet, underlines the UNEP. According to their latest inventory of the planet published in late 2013, the IPCC experts estimate that the sea level should rise by 36 to 82 cm by the end of the century. This rise in ocean height caused by the melting of Greenland, Antarctic and glacier glaciers in the mountains.