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Islands in the Maldives are among those that could be affected by a global rise in sea levels. Credit: Gerd Masselink/University of Plymouth
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As the coronavirus pandemic compounds worsening economic pressures from climate change impacts, small island developing nations on Monday appealed for international financial support to help them avert a looming debt crisis...One major barrier, however, is that many island states in the Caribbean, the Pacific and beyond do not qualify for debt suspension programmes...

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