A Global Consortium Working Toward Energy Sustainability
in Small Island Developing States
 

Publications

Pacific Power. The IPCC Report and Its Implications for the Pacifc, 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…”

GSEII Newsletters