​Survival of Small Islands: Will COP26 Deliver?

​This iDERA briefing brings together SIDS’ key aims in the negotiations. These include, seeking new and more ambitious commitments to reducing GHG emissions and securing support to assist them in building their resilience to and adapting to Climate Change; and compensation for the burden and additional costs to them from the loss and damage that they bear that is due to the activities of other countries.

The brief can be accessed below
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​SIDS and the coalitions they belong to generally have a cohesive set of positions leading into COP26. SIDS have been leading the call for greater ambition, the 1.5oC temperature target, and the need for finance to catch-up to the reality of the situation well beyond the Paris Agreement. Arriving at a cohesive position in the lead up to COP26 has been laden with difficulties. Even from a solely technical viewpoint, it is difficult to coordinate and maybe negotiate across so many time zones, with limited bandwidth. Nonetheless, they have been able to organise and negotiate, coming together to deliver clear priorities. A summary of the high-level position of SIDS through a review of submissions and statements of the coaltions they belong to is presented below and presented in detail in the brief.

Dr Paul Goodison shares a summary of areas of concern regarding future trade relations with the UK. 

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The new EU/UK rules of origin requirements for the cross-border movement of goods could prove disruptive of certain Caribbean rum, horticulture, sugar and potentially rice supply chains. At the business level this will require a rethinking of routes to markets. At the policy level it will require a sustained engagement to secure a right of automatic cumulation for all Caribbean products enjoying duty-free/quota-free access to both the EU and UK markets, when traded across an EU/UK border.  Only such a policy innovation would remove the rules of origin complications which threatened to make commercially non-viable the current Caribbean exports which are routed via the EU to the UK market or via the UK to EU markets. 

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