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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York—Last night, leaders from the Alliance of Small Island States’ (AOSIS), a group of 43 low-lying and coastal states that are highly vulnerable to climate change, adopted a Declaration on the sidelines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly that calls for urgent action to address the climate change crisis. “Climate change is progressing so rapidly ...

The Gambia delivered a joint statement today on behalf of the Least Developed Countries and the Alliance of Small Island States on the importance of an ambitious Kyoto Protocol with environmental integrity. The full statement can be found below: Madam Chair, I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Least Developed Countries and, for the first time, the Al ...

AOSIS's Deputy Lead Negotiator and its coordinator on loss and damage outlined the rationale for the programme and the  group's longstanding proposal on the issue in a recent commentary published on Reuters's AlertNet. The plan is gaining traction at climate negotiations as impacts continue to soar leaving vulnerable countries to bear the costs of a crisis n ...

Sai Navoti, lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, made a strong intervention on Wednesday during the ADP ambition roundtable discussions. He underscored the inescapable reality that short-term ambition is essential to keep global warming below 1.5 or even 2 degrees Celsius. Thus, immediately raising ambition in the short-term must be the p ...