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Criteria for Joint Implementation under the Negotiating Committee for the Climate Change Convention
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The Alliance of Small Island States wish to thank the Secretariat for its paper, A/AC.237/35. This provided a helpful starting point for discussions about joint implementation under the Framework Convention on Climate Change at INC8. These initial discussions, and the subsequent comments submitted by countries contained in document A/AC,237/Misc.33, provide a range of views about…
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Statement at the Adoption of the General Assembly Resolution on the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Climate Change
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STATEMENT Statement at the Adoption of the General Assembly Resolution on the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Climate Change May 20, 2026 HE Janine Felson Download PDF Topic: Climate Thank you, Madam President. 1. Belize has the honor to speak on behalf of the members of the Alliance of Small Island…
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A mi-parcours, la COP26 partagée entre louanges et désillusions
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“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”.
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What it’s like negotiating at COP26 as a small island state
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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,…
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Concessional financing must be available to all #SIDS – Al Jazeera
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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.
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Who will pay for the damage caused by climate change?
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“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).
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Small island states bat for dedicated climate money from developed countries
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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.
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Climate change: Bonn talks end in acrimony over compensation
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“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.
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How the Ukraine crisis raises the costs of climate change for poor nations
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“[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…
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Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Strategies for SDG Success
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STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLAND STATES (AOSIS) Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Strategies for SDG Success High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) Madam Vice-President, I have the honor to deliver the following statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). Today marks the one-year anniversary of the…