“We need political will, vision and leadership, and out-of-the-box thinking. SIDS, Small Islands Developing States, spends 25% of their foreign exchange on importing fossil fuels. Energy independence of SIDS by utilizing renewable resources is the shortest path to their economic development, which will in turn reduce vulnerabilities, enhance capacity to adapt, and develop resilience to the other challenges they are confronting. In addition, SIDS can serve as models and examples for bigger nations…”

Nasir Khattak, Vice President of the Climate Institute, during a speech he made on GSEII to the United Nations General Assembly

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