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JOINT STATEMENT & SUBMISSION BY THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES GROUPS ON THE NEW COLLECTIVE QUANTIFIED GOAL ON CLIMATE FINANCE (NCQG)
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JOINT STATEMENT & SUBMISSION BY THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND ALLIANCE OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES GROUPS ON THE NEW COLLECTIVE QUANTIFIED GOAL ON CLIMATE FINANCE (NCQG) **Kindly download PDF above to view
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Joining hands on a global approach to plastic pollution
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Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen. I would like to welcome you to this High-Level Roundtable on policy solutions to tackle plastic pollution. In a week of many plastic pollution events, we are hopeful that this event will move the discussion forward by talking about concrete solutions to this problem. As was noted at the launch…
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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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Decision-making procedures and information sharing for the Biosafety Clearing-House
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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…
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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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Key goals up in the air as COP26 climate summit ends
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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.
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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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COP 26: Poor countries demand compensation for climate impacts caused by wealthy nations
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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)
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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).