AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoSIDS Climate & Ocean Push: Seychelles President Dr Patrick Herminie joined AOSIS leaders in New York to press for moving climate and ocean commitments into practical action, with focus on COP31, the BBNJ ocean treaty and sustainable financing. Seychelles Leadership at SIDS DOCK: Seychelles takes over the SIDS DOCK Assembly presidency through Dec 2027, with Herminie elected to lead the Tenth Session and priorities spanning sustainable energy and climate resilience. Community Clean-Up Momentum: Seychelles marked World Clean-up Day with a Roche Caïman clean-up and a wider “Cleanup Marathon” effort, backed by local schools and Wastea, aiming to keep beaches and public spaces clean every few weeks. Coral Recovery Spotlight: An international exhibition in Astana highlighted coral science, including Seychelles’ Assisted Recovery of Coral (ARC) programme using sexual reproduction to grow genetically diverse young corals. Debt, Disasters & Climate Finance: UN General Assembly remarks from climate-vulnerable nations warned that disaster recovery is too often funded by loans, not grants, trapping countries in debt while they face storms and rising seas. Conservation Benchmarking: A regional biodiversity outlook ranked Seychelles highest in Eastern and Southern Africa for land protection (about 68%), underscoring the gap to global conservation targets.
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