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UNDP recognizes that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face numerous barriers to meeting their priority of sustainable economic development while at the same time ensuring environmental conservation. These barriers are largely a reflection of countries' natural qualities such as their remoteness, limited natural resources and vulnerability, coupled with their constraints in developing their transportation, communication and economic sectors

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) submitted its Initial National Communication in October, 1999. This Second National Communication uses it as the baseline to document the increases in FSM's vulnerability to climate change, and changes in its greenhouse gas emissions, since the Initial National Communication was prepared. This National Communication also reports on the efforts FSM is making to reduce its emissions and to identify and implement adaptation options that reduce climate risks.