Search results for: “aosis-adopts-urgency-of-now-declaration-of-action”
-
Decision-making procedures and information sharing for the Biosafety Clearing-House
Published on
Statement by the delegation of Jamaica on decision-making procedures Thank you Mr. Chairman. The Small Island Developing States have considered this issue in a preliminary manner. We have noted that the experience in other relevant conventions demonstrates the need for capacity building as being vital to their effective implementation. It is clear that for the…
-
A mi-parcours, la COP26 partagée entre louanges et désillusions
Published on
“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”.
-
What it’s like negotiating at COP26 as a small island state
Published on
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
Published on
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
Published on
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
Published on
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)
-
Who will pay for the damage caused by climate change?
Published on
“When countries lose their islands because of sea level rise and extreme events, they are losing their culture and traditions. There is no adapting to that,” says Le-Anne Roper, coordinator for loss and damage at the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).
-
Small island states bat for dedicated climate money from developed countries
Published on
THE ALLIANCE of Small Island States (AOSIS) is insistent that developed countries should respond positively to the call for dedicated financing facility for victims of climate change impacts.
-
Climate change: Bonn talks end in acrimony over compensation
Published on
“The climate emergency is fast becoming a catastrophe,” said Conrod Hunte, lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). “Yet within these walls the process feels out of step with reality, the pace feels too slow,” he told delegates at the end of the meeting.
-
How the Ukraine crisis raises the costs of climate change for poor nations
Published on
“[These] governments have largely been bankrolling or paying for their adaptation,” Janine Felson, Belize ambassador and co-lead Climate Finance Negotiator at the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), told TRT World. “They will have to take a bit of a pain killer to swallow the cost,” Felson says, “which means that national budgets will have…