No amount of engineering advances can fully defend and save our small island developing States and low-lying coastal areas from the perils of the surging waters and rising tides of the sea, caused by the adverse impact of climate change.

With the end of the cold war, there has been a new surge of interdependence and multilateralism, while the world economy has become increasingly globalized.

It allows developing countries to temporarily raise tariffs above bound rates in response to import surge or import price depression.

Water boiled up beneath the bubble, it seethed and spouted. The bubble surged into the air, bobbing and rolling on the water spout. Up, up it climbed, throwing stilts of light at the cliff. Up it surged on the jet, the water falling from beneath it, crashing back into the sea hundreds of feet below.