Category: Press Release
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AOSIS Pushes Progress On Loss and Damage Finance Facility
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SIDS climate negotiators chart way forward for climate at AOSIS regional workshops Thursday 11th August, 2022: The operationalisation of a Loss and Damage Finance Facility is an urgent issue for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that grapple with servicing loans to recover from extreme climate disasters and slow-onset impacts, at the cost of sustainable development.…
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Leaders Call On International Community To Support SIDS Recovery
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Presidents of the UN General Assembly, Caribbean Development Bank, and other leaders highlight need for MVI, social and economic transformation, strengthened international commitments at recently concluded Wadadli Action Platform Wednesday 10th August 2022: H.E. Mr. Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, called on the international community to strengthen…
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Historic Wadadli Action Platform Set To Advance Action For SIDS Resilience
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AOSIS will convene international SIDS leaders’ meeting to map out a sustainable pathway amidst post-pandemic recovery Thursday 4th August, 2022: Leaders of Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) from the Pacific, Caribbean, and African, Indian Ocean and South China Sea states will converge at the Wadadli Action Platform to address the most critical issues that hinder…
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AOSIS Fellowship wins UN Small Island Developing States Partnership Awards
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AOSIS Fellowship wins UN Small Island Developing States Partnership Awards On Monday 11th July, the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) Fellowship was honoured with one of the inaugural awards of the UN Small Island Developing States Partnership Awards. The UN SIDS Partnership Awards seek to recognize genuine and durable partnerships between Small Island…
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World’s Most Vulnerable Call for Application of Article 6 Rules to Voluntary Carbon Market
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World’s Most Vulnerable Call for Application of Article 6 Rules to Voluntary Carbon Market Bonn – 8 June 2022 Two UN negotiating groups representing 85 countries exceptionally vulnerable to climate change, this week signed a joint letter to the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM), urging it to apply several key principles from…
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AOSIS: Adaptation and Financing to Address Loss And Damage Take Centre Stage at Bonn Climate Change Conference
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Bonn – 7 June 2022 – The Alliance of Small Islands States, AOSIS, is adamant that developed countries heed the call to set up dedicated financing to assist Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that are ravaged by climate change impacts. This will be discussed at the 56th Session of the Subsidiary Bodies, held at the…
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Global Environment Facility dedicates a Climate Fund for SIDS
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New York – 17 May 2022 – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has become the first UN climate fund with a dedicated window to the 30 Small Island Developing States SIDS that are not also Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This is a significant development for this group…
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Island Nations’ Losses and Damages Worsen Without Faster Emissions Cuts This Decade
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PRESS RELEASE IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) 2022 Working Group III Report: Mitigation of Climate Change Island Nations’ Loss and Damages Worsens Without Faster Emission Cuts This Decade Embargoed until April 4, 15:00 hrs GMT New York – 04 April 2022 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report on the Mitigation of…
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SIDS Survival Means Keeping 1.5 Alive
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PRESS RELEASE IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) 2022 Working Group II Report: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability SIDS Survival Means Keeping 1.5 Alive New York – 28 February 2022 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability makes it clear that small islands will not be able to adapt to…
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INNOVATIVE AOSIS – OSF CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO REDUCE ISLAND DEBT
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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…