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Recommendation 16
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Commit to recognising SIDS' legal statehood continuity and fixed maritime boundaries despite sea-level rise.
Recommendation
In the light of the ILC’s impending report on the topic, the UK Government should commit to working with like-minded states to explore ways of (i) formally recognising the continuity of Small Island Developing States’ legal statehood, should all their The UK Small Island Developing States Strategy 43 inhabitable land disappear due to sea-level rise and (ii) recognising countries’ legal maritime zone boundaries as fixed, even if their coastlines retreat due to sea level rise. (Paragraph 49) Capacity building
Government Response
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