Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The Consortium is made up of six island nations, commonwealths or territories: American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia (including Chuuk and Pohnpei), Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 8, 2008

The Marshall Islands are still suffering as a results of atom bomb tests. Unlike on the mainland, where there is demand for scrap metal (and the ability to process the metal), I have to assume the economics don't make sense. Of course, much of the wreckage is left over from World War II and its immediate aftermath.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

For many low-lying island nations , the challenge of higher seas and more intense tropical storms will be existential. Most of the populations of these regions live within a few miles of the shoreline, putting them in grave danger.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 7, 2025

Ambassador Albon Ishoda, Marshall Islands special envoy for maritime decarbonization, said IMO’s climate targets are meaningless without the levy. Some fear that anything short of a universal levy would jeopardize climate goals and allow wealthier ship owners to buy compliance while continuing to pollute.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

” A model in the Marshall Islands? What he has in mind is something more like the free-association agreement the Marshall Islands negotiated with the U.S. ” Whatever happens, most Greenlanders agree that the island’s fate should be up to them, not Trump. “One way or the other.”

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