How to make the UNFCCC process more efficient and effective
The UN climate change negotiations are meant to address the most urgent crisis facing the international community, one that has already triggered environmental and humanitarian disasters on an unprecedented scale, and, if current trends continue, one that will lead to the loss of entire nations as rising seas more ...
AOSIS Proposes Way Forward on Short-Term Ambition
In light of the lack of progress on short-term mitigation ambition, AOSIS has submitted a non-paper with our suggestion on how to advance the discussions under ADP Workstream 2. The proposal responds to an alarming gap in mitigation ambition that, if not filled, places us on track for global warming in excess more ...
Loss and Damage Reflects New Era of the Climate Talks
It is fair to say that the central role Loss and Damage played in the Doha climate negotiations took many people by surprise. Due in large part to the work of AOSIS negotiators, and allies from the LDCs, African Group, and G77, the final text recognised that climate related loss and damage was part of a new r more ...
Clean Energy Takes Center Stage in the Pacific
Two recent high-level events focused on clean energy in the Pacific, held in Tonga and New Zealand, offered a glimpse into the future of low-carbon development in the region. The schedule of events in Tonga was designed to showcase what opportunities for clean energy technologies – be it wind, solar, thermal, more ...
