Category: Statement
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Pre-COP28 Plenary Roundtable: Building Global Solidarity: Operationalizing Loss and Damage Fund and Funding Arrangements
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Date: Tuesday, 31 October 2023 Session 3: Plenary Roundtable: Building Global Solidarity: Operationalizing Loss and Damage Fund and Funding Arrangements. Guiding Questions 1. What do particularly vulnerable developing countries need to be able to address economic and non-economic losses and damages caused by the impacts of climate change? How can the L&D fund and funding…
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Pre-COP Plenary Roundtable: Pathways to 2030
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Date: Monday, 30 October 2023 Session 1: Plenary Roundtable: Pathways to 2030 Guiding Questions 1. How can we ensure that the COP28 outcomes set the path for increasing ambition and enable all countries to overcome the implementation challenges they face at a national level to deliver a collective course correction by 2030 through pathways based…
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AOSIS Statement on Agenda items 18: Sustainable development Second Committee
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9 October 2023, UNHQ Mr. Chair, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, I have the honor to deliver this statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States. We align ourselves with the statement delivered by the distinguished representative of Cuba on behalf of the Group of 77 and China. Mr. Chair, In 1992 at the United…
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2023 AOSIS Leaders Declaration
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ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLAND STATES LEADERS’ DECLARATION 2023 We, the Heads of State and Government of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), meeting in New York on 22 September 2023, on the margins of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly: 1. Recall previous AOSIS Leaders’ Declarations adopted on 22 September 2021,…
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UN CLIMATE AMBITION SUMMIT
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UN CLIMATE AMBITION SUMMIT Wednesday 20th September, 2023 Your Excellency Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations Excellencies Colleagues • I am honoured to bring you greetings from the Independent State of Samoa, and I am pleased to deliver my remarks as Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). • On behalf…
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REACTION TO THE GLOBAL STOCKTAKE SYNTHESIS REPORT
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ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLAND STATES REACTION TO THE GLOBAL STOCKTAKE SYNTHESIS REPORT September 8th, 2023 We are small islands facing an enormous crisis. The GST Synthesis Report delivers another devastating blow. The report confirms that the world is woefully behind on climate action to peak emissions and limit our world’s warming to 1.5°C – and…
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AOSIS Climate Newsletter – AOSIS Chair Message, August 2023
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Talofa reader, I am pleased to introduce the first newsletter from the climate team of the Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States. We look forward to keeping our members and partners updated on our work as we strive to amplify the priorities of our small island developing states (SIDS) and empower our people.…
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Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Fourth International SIDS Conference: Statement by Chair of AOSIS, Peseta Noumea Simi
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Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Fourth International SIDS Conference: Statement by Chair of AOSIS, Peseta Noumea Simi, During the Opening Ceremony. 16 August 2023, Nukualofa, TONGA Excellencies, colleagues and dear friends, I am pleased to make the following remarks in my capacity as Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). Let me…
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Regional AOSIS Statement: Preparatory Meeting for the Caribbean region
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Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Caribbean region 8 – 10 August 2023, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines AOSIS Statement Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honor to deliver this statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States. Let me begin by thanking the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for…
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Statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) at the joint SBSTA and SBI Closing Plenary (SB58)
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Executive Secretary Stiell Distinguished Chairs of the Subsidiary Bodies Colleagues Samoa delivers this statement on behalf of the 39 members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). [We associate ourselves with the statement made by the Group of 77 and China.] AOSIS wishes to begin by reminding the world that this process is supposed…