Alliance of Small Island States

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Immediate Release: 8 December 2012 Contact: Michael Crocker, michael.crocker@aosis.org, +1 978 968 9499 Doha—At the rushed end of the 2012 UN climate conference, Foreign Minister Kieren Keke of Nauru, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, released the following statement: “This is not where we wanted to be at the end of the meeting, I assure you. ...

Today at an informal ministerial roundtable, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced a plan "to convene world leaders in 2014 to mobilize the political will for a final agreement in 2015" in order to address urgent emissions reductions needed to avert a global catastrophe. Marshall Islands Minister-In-Assistance to the President Tony deBrum, welcomed the ...

AOSIS Ministers: Our Survival Hinges on Ambition DOHA—Following the Alliance of Small Island States’ (AOSIS) High Level Meeting on Sunday, ministers and heads of delegation from the coalition of 43 countries that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, together released the following statement reaffirming the group’s positions at the start of ...

1 December, 2012 AOSIS, LDCs, African Group: Talks Falling Short on Short-Term Ambition DOHA—As the first week of climate change negotiations in Doha concludes, the Alliance of Small Island States, Least Developed Countries and the African Group, which together represent 100 countries and over 1.4 billion people who are highly vulnerable to the impacts of cl ...

For Immediate Release: 26 November 2012 CONTACT: Contact: Michael Crocker, michael.crocker@aosis.org, + 1 978 968 9499 AOSIS, LDCs, African Group: Kyoto Is Essential to Successful Outcome in Doha DOHA—Ahead of the climate change negotiations in Doha, the Alliance of Small Island States, Least Developed Countries and the African Group, which together represen ...

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 ...