Project Title: Why We Shouldn't Ignore Small Island Developing States
BASIS Advisor: Megan Floyd
Internship Location: The World Bank
Onsite Mentor: Geeta Batra
Climate change has been brought to the forefront of global policies recently, with focus mainly being on global powers such as the US, China, and Russia. Hundreds of climate change policies have been implemented with the purpose of slowing down rising temperature. The policies are enacted with the purpose of how they mostly affect larger countries, without much thought to Small Island Developing States (SIDS), such as Haiti and St. Lucia. In my research project I hope to analyze the funds that have been allocated to the SIDS and determine if they were allocated and used effectively. The World Bank has access to the information necessary as well as has done research on this in the past, and I hope to utilize their resources.
My Posts
Week 10!
May 21, 2021
Hi everyone! It’s the final week, and it’s been a long journey. Thank you to everyone who’s been staying updated and reading my blogs. I hope you’ve enjoyed this experience as much as I have. I have learnt so much about data research, climate change, the environment, and SIDS. This week I’ve been finishing up […]
Week 9!
May 10, 2021
Hi everyone! Welcome back! While working on my paper this week, I realized that making my plan would take a lot more data that I did not have access to. As a result, I’ve decided to focus more on how to deal with the challenges that have occurred in previous GEF studies instead of making […]
Week 8!
May 03, 2021
Hi everyone! I’ve been working on the paper and presentation this week! I realized I had to add more on why SIDS matter, so I looked at an article (link at bottom). The article showed that SIDS don’t release great amounts of emissions, but still suffer from their effects. In addition, they receive only a small […]
Week 7!
May 03, 2021
Hi everyone! This week I focused more on key challenges that have arisen in the past. These included political challenges, low environmental awareness, waste management, natural disasters, economics, risk management, exit plan, and many more. I believe that one of the major ways to deal with the challenges is by focusing on the governments in […]
Week 6!
May 03, 2021
Hi everyone! This week I continued reading the paper and writing my own paper. I focused on what had worked so far and key challenges. In terms of what has worked so far, there have been good environmental outcomes, policies, and infrastructures, when the projects are structured and put in place effectively. However, the question […]
Week 5!
May 03, 2021
Hi everyone! So this week, I started reading the article. The graph below shows what’s been done in fields in the past to help SIDS. This combined with information from the data set gave me enough information to write most of what’s been done in the past in the paper. The focal area has mostly […]
Week 4!
May 03, 2021
Hi everyone! I haven’t posted a blog in a while, but I will be posting them now. In Week 4, I met up with my senior project on-site advisor, and we went more in depth into the paper and also went over my analysis of the data set. One part we went more in depth […]
Week 3!
Mar 26, 2021
Hi everyone! Not much happened this week, I continued to review data and take notes on it. A lot of countries are in this data so reviewing it is very time-consuming. I’ve been writing notes on each of the countries and will be using the notes as an outline for the final paper. I’ve also […]
Week 2!
Mar 20, 2021
Hi everyone! My project this week has just consisted of looking at data sets. There were some rough patches at the start because I had not done anything like this before, but I soon got the hang of it and am hoping to finish all of it by Tuesday! The data is comprised of what […]
Week 1!
Mar 15, 2021
Hi everyone! I’m Sarika and my senior project is about climate change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), such as Haiti and Cuba. Climate change is a very pressing problem, but especially in SIDS. Due to the fact they’re surrounded by the ocean and sea levels are rising yearly, they can go underwater soon. The […]