Alliance of Small Island States

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 inundate low-lying island states around the world ...

For Immediate Release: 3 May 2013 CONTACT: Contact: Michael Crocker, michael.crocker@aosis.org, + 1 978 968 9499 AOSIS and LDCs advice to climate negotiators: Focus. Focus. Focus. Bonn, Germany—At the conclusion of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, AOSIS and the Least Developed Countries groups, which ...

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 of 4 degrees Celsius. We therefore call on partie ...

A commentary by AOSIS Lead Negotiator, Ngedikes "Olai" Uludong, outlines the group's expectations for the ADP discussions. Click here to read full article ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 April 2013 Bonn, Germany – At the opening of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP 2) here, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) delivered the following statement on behalf of its members: Distinguished Co-Chairs, Excellencies, Colleagues Nauru has the honour to speak on ...

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 reality for many vulnerable countries around the wo ...

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, and so forth – exist in different island contexts ...

The Co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for enhanced Action (ADP) posted a second informal note reflecting on the progress made in Doha and some of the work that lies ahead this year as well as an overview of the discussions schedule for the upcoming meeting in Bonn. You will recall that the ADP is divided into two workstreams. Works ...

The Republic of Nauru, current Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), announced at a recent plenary meeting of Ambassadors from AOSIS countries that the European Union would be providing essential funding to support AOSIS’s advocacy work at the international climate change negotiations. AOSIS is a coalition of 43 island and coastal countries a ...

Amb. Marlene Moses delivered a no nonsense speech as part of the Crawford Barton Lecture Series at Australia's National University in Canberra on Tuesday. The presentation came as part of a week long trip to the country to seek support for more ambitious emissions reductions from Australia. She will conduct an interview on Radio Australia later this week. Th ...