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Climate change: Small island nations not waiting for rich countries to act

Increasingly intense storms are just one of the ways climate change threatens small island developing states like Dominica

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A climate-resilient country must be able to recover quickly and address weaknesses revealed by future destructive disasters.

Neil Decenteceo | FPIF
On September 18, 2017, the category-5 Hurricane Maria ravaged the shores of Dominica,  damaging or destroying 90 per cent of its buildings and causing damage equivalent to 200 percent of the small Caribbean island nation’s GDP.

In the aftermath, 20 perc ent of Dominica’s roughly 70,000 inhabitants had to flee due to lost homes or jobs, and 64 lost their lives.

Increasingly intense storms are just one of the ways climate change threatens small island developing states like Dominica, which are least responsible for producing greenhouse gases but face a disproportionate share of the consequences. June marked the beginning of

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