Alliance of Small Island States

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  • AOSIS calls for workshops on insurance and climate risk assessment

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    2002, Climate, SB17, UNFCCC

    Samoa, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) welcomes this opportunity to submit its views on the additional terms of reference for the insurance related workshops under Decision 5/CP.7, paragraphs 34 and 35. This submission should be seen in conjunction with earlier submissions by AOSIS on adaptation. AOSIS reserves the right to…

  • Communique of the Fourth Heads of States and Governments of AOSIS

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    2002, Sustainable Development

    1. The Heads of State and Government of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) met 1 September 2002 at World Summit on Sustainable development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 26 August to 4 September, 2002. The meeting was chaired by H.E. the Honorable Tuila’epa Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of the Independent State of…

  • Communique from the Fourth Summit of the AOSIS Heads of State and Government

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    2002, SDGs, Sustainable Development

    We, the Heads of State and Government and representatives of AOSIS express great satisfaction with the agreement on the special provisions contained in Chapter VII of the draft Plan of Implementation for the WSSD on the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States. The section elaborates the special case for Small Island Developing States in…

  • IPCC sidesteps question of what constitutes dangerous climate change in AR3

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    2002, Climate, SB16, UNFCCC

    Samoa, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) welcomes the opportunity to submit some views on priority areas of research and questions for the scientific community arising from the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the IPCC. AOSIS has already commented on the TAR at the 7th Conference of the Parties, and those…

  • Inter-regional Preparatory Meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

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    2002, Sustainable Development

    The meeting was held at the M Hotel, Singapore from 7 to 11 January 2002. It was organized by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Small Island Developing States Unit (SIDS Unit) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). A significant financial contribution was made by the Singapore…

  • AOSIS Workshop on trade, sustainable development and small island developing States

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    2001, Macroeconomics, Sustainable Development

    The workshop was held at the Wyndham Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in Montego Bay, Jamaica from 12 to 15 December, 2001. Informal consultations, registration and preparation was held on 11 December. Proceedings Opening ceremony The workshop was blessed by The Reverend Edward Jennings, of Montego Bay. Mrs. Norma Taylor Roberts (Ministry of Foreign…

  • AOSIS decries the failure of the AdHoc Energy Working Group

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    2001, SDGs, Sustainable Development

    Mr. Chairmen, I have the honour to speak on behalf of the forty-three Members and Observers of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), thirty-seven of which are members of the United Nations. Energy is one of the fourteen priority issues identified in 1994 in the Barbados Programme of Action for the sustainable development of…

  • AOSIS heightens calls for implementation of the BPOA

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    2001, 2C, GA56, SDGs, Sustainable Development

    Mr. Chairman, I have the honour to make this statement on behalf of the thirty-seven members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) that are represented at the United Nations. Let me also say that as developing countries the AOSIS membership associates fully with the statement delivered by the Chairman of the Group of…

  • Further cooperation is needed between the UNFCCC, the CBD and the CCD

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    2001, Climate, SB15, UNFCCC

    Samoa, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS) welcomes this opportunity to submit its initial views on the issue of “Cooperation between the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention to Combat Desertification”. At present the implementation of the UNFCCC, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)…

  • AOSIS contributes to work on developing methods to assess climate change impacts

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    2001, Climate, SB15, UNFCCC

    Samoa, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) welcomes this opportunity to provide comments on the report of the adaptation workshop contained in FCCC/SBSTA/2001/Inf.4 and the conclusions therein. AOSIS also wishes to provide further views on the general approaches to adaptation work under the Convention, in light of the decision on guidance…