NEW YORK, MAY 30 – “As member of the Preparatory Committee’s Bureau, Italy is honored to contribute to the work towards a successful Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Conference in 2024. We’ll keep supporting SIDS sustainable development. In the run-up to the Conference, it will be crucial to build on the synergies with the other relevant processes, like the Food Systems Stocktaking Moment in Rome, the SDGs Summit, the COP28“, the Italian Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, said during a meeting in New York.
Speaking during the organizational session of the Preparatory Committee for the Conference, Massari recalled that recently Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani announced a contribution of up to 1 million USD to the organization of the 4th International SIDS Conference. Italy – he said – regards SIDS as crucial partners in the global agenda, and in its capacity, will make every effort so as to achieve a successful outcome. COP28 will be a crucial block along the process: “We have to ensure that SIDS development encompasses all the SDGs, but we all know that climate change represents the most pressing issue these countries face, an existential threat, and we need to deliver through multilateral actions and solidarity.
Massari recalled that Italy established long-term partnerships in particular with CARICOM countries and PSIDS in the field of sustainable development, climate change, capacity building. In both cases, our cooperation predates the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, anticipating some interconnected environmental and social goals that will be explicitly addressed in Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement. (@OnuItalia)
