Samoa Conference III: Opportunities and Challenges for a Sustainable Cultural and Natural Environment

The Third Samoa Conference (SCIII) will be held the week before the commencement of the United Nations Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Apia, 1-4 September, 2014. SCIII will reflect on the theme of the SIDS conference in relation to sustainable development in small island states, at a time when small islands are uniquely challenged by the future impacts of climate change. However the SCIII theme embraces the concept of ‘sustainable development’ in the broadest sense. We will explore questions of how to sustain and protect Samoa’s past, present and future achievements in relation to the natural environment, culture, language, literature history, heritage, communications, science, health and education.