{"id":24593,"date":"2025-10-27T05:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24593"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:42:43","slug":"gardi-sugdub-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gardi-sugdub-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardi Sugdub Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Gardi Sugdub Island:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a tiny island in the <strong>Caribbean Sea<\/strong> and a part of the <strong>San Blas archipelago<\/strong>, which comprises 365 islands, mostly uninhabited.<\/li>\n<li>It is home to 1,200 <strong>indigenous Guna people<\/strong>, who will soon be displaced to the mainland because of the sea level rise induced by climate change.<\/li>\n<li>The further movement of inhabitants from the surrounding islands is foreseen to be necessary by 2050.<\/li>\n<li>The Latin American nation is set to become the <strong>first to evacuate<\/strong> an entire island community due to climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Panama is situated in the Caribbean, where sea level rise currently averages around 3 to 4 millimetres per year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about the Caribbean Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the Atlantic Ocean\u2019s 2nd largest <strong>marginal sea<\/strong> that is geographically positioned between the continents of <strong>North and South America<\/strong> in the Western Hemisphere.<\/li>\n<li>It is bordered by the countries of <strong>Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela<\/strong> in the south; by <strong>Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua<\/strong>, and <strong>Mexico\u2019s Yucatan Peninsula<\/strong> in the <strong>west<\/strong>; by the Greater Antilles islands in the north; and by the Lesser Antilles islands in the east.<\/li>\n<li>The Caribbean Sea is connected with <strong>the Gulf of Mexico<\/strong> in the north via the <strong>Yucatan Channel.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Climate Change Performance Index?<\/h3>\n<p>Climate Change Performance Index is an instrument to enable transparency in national and international climate politics. It is published by Germanwatch, the New Climate Institute and the Climate Action Network annually. It was first published in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/panama-island-relocate-sea-level-rise-9420734\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Climate change forces Panama islanders to relocate: What happened \u2014 and how sea level rise is affecting the world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardi Sugdub Island is a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea and a part of the San Blas archipelago, which comprises 365 islands, mostly uninhabited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}