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  • INNOVATIVE AOSIS – OSF CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO REDUCE ISLAND DEBT

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    2021, Sustainable Development

    INNOVATIVE AOSIS – OSF CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO REDUCE ISLAND DEBT The US$ 500,000 Finance for Acting on Climate in the Eastern Caribbean (FACE) project aims to alleviate the Small Islands’ debt crisis escalated by climate change impacts and the COVID-19 pandemic The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) has entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership…

  • A mi-parcours, la COP26 partagée entre louanges et désillusions

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    AOSIS in the News

    “Arrêtons les paroles en l’air sur l’accès aux financement”, a dénoncé Lia Nicholson, négociatrice pour l’Alliance des petites Etats insulaires (Aosis), déplorant que les populations en première ligne des dérèglements climatiques “soient prises en otage d’une charité aléatoire”.

  • Climate-vulnerable nations demand more financial support in COP26 draft deal

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    AOSIS in the News

    Aubrey Webson, U.N. ambassador for Antigua and Barbuda and chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, said the deal needed to be strengthened to help the most vulnerable, particularly with finance to adopt clean energy and cope with climate change impacts.

  • Rich countries still don’t want to pay their climate change tab

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    AOSIS in the News

    “There were a lot of very positive statements,” said Janine Felson, deputy head of the Belize delegation and an adviser to the Alliance of Small Island States, a negotiating bloc of 39 island and low-lying countries. “What we are seeing, though, in the [negotiating] room is very different. It’s more business as usual, so rhetoric…

  • What it’s like negotiating at COP26 as a small island state

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    AOSIS in the News

    Qui is negotiating on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis). It is a coalition of 39 countries, largely from the Caribbean and South Pacific, including Jamaica, Cuba, Fiji and Antigua and Barbuda. “We are a group of very small countries that don’t have a significant amount of political leverage,” says Frances Fuller,…

  • Key goals up in the air as COP26 climate summit ends

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    AOSIS in the News

    Ambassador Aubrey Webson, AOSIS Chair, speaks. The United Nations’ climate summit is wrapping up Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland. Delegates from nearly 200 nations are attempting to keep the goal of the 2015 Paris climate agreement alive by limiting the threshold of rising temperatures to 1.5 Celsius.

  • Concessional financing must be available to all #SIDS – Al Jazeera

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    AOSIS in the News

    AOSIS Negotiator, Lia Nicholson: Climate disasters do not bypass vulnerable SIDS that are defined as high income. GDP per capita cannot be applied to climate finance. Concessional financing must be available to all #SIDS in order to build our resilience to climate change.

  • COP 26: Poor countries demand compensation for climate impacts caused by wealthy nations

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    AOSIS in the News

    As the world is struggling to keep global warming at bay, the issue of who pays for the fallout of climate change is one of the major sticking points in negotiations at the UN climate conference in Glasgow. Ambassador Prasad (Fiji), Minister Molwyn Joseph (Antigua and Barbuda, AOSIS Chair)

  • As COP26 Closes the Paris Agreement Work Programme, We Must Race To Resilience

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    2021, Climate, COP26, UNFCCC

    Statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) at the Joint Closing Plenary of COP, CMP, CMA Mr. President Excellencies Colleagues Antigua and Barbuda takes the floor on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States. We associate ourselves with the statement by the Republic of Guinea on behalf of the Group…

  • The Glasgow Dialogue Must Lead To A Clear Destination – Adoption of 1/CMA.3

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    2021, Climate, COP26, UNFCCC

    Adoption of 1/CMA.3 Statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) 13 November 2021 AOSIS requests the COP President to firmly acknowledge the G77 and China position on loss and damage. This common position was, and still is, to establish the Glasgow Loss and Damage Facility under the Financial Mechanism, and to…