Alliance of Small Island States

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  • Gender Responsive Climate Actions in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

    Gender Responsive Climate Actions in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

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    2022, Climate

    Introduction: Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have supported and continue to support climate actions that promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and vulnerable groups. Governments and civil society actors with support from international organizations have strengthened their national policies and institutional mechanisms, planned gender responsive climate change actions, and enhanced national-level capacities to…

  • AOSIS looks to scale up Antigua and Barbuda’s pilot Debt for Climate Swap Roadmap

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    2022, Climate, Finance

    A Roadmap for Implementing Innovative Finance BACKGROUND The current environment provides a unique opportunity for SIDS facing climate related vulnerabilities but with little fiscal capacity amid heavy debt burdens to explore options to address these issues in a systematic manner § Global momentum has been building among stakeholders to incorporate climate resilience and environmental sustainability…

  • Third workshop of AOSIS on climate change negotiations, energy, and sustainable development

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    2001, Climate, UNFCCC

    The second workshop of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) on climate change negotiations, management and strategy was held in Apia, Samoa, from 26 July to 4 August, 2000, under the auspices of the Government of Samoa. It was organized by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in cooperation with the Division for…

  • AOSIS Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change in Buenos Aires

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    2004, Climate, COP10, UNFCCC

    We, the Ministers and other heads of delegation of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) present at the tenth session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aires, Noting with alarm the devastating effect that hurricanes in the Caribbean and cyclones in the Pacific wreaked…

  • Creating the Framework Convention on Climate Change

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    1991, Climate, UNFCCC

    Statement on commitments submitted by the delegation of Vanuatu on behalf of the States members of the Alliance of Small Island States to working Group I at the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee. We have the honour of submitting, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), this statement setting forth…

  • AOSIS Report of the 22nd Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UNFCCC

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    2005, Climate, SB22, UNFCCC

    1. Introduction 1.1 The twenty-second sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB 22) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place from 19-27 May 2005, at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn, Germany. Approximately 1600 participants attended the meeting. 1.2 As Vice-Chairman of the AOSIS coordinating for the AOSIS group at the SB…

  • AOSIS delivers broad and in-depth statement at the beginning of joint plenary at COP27

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    2022, Climate, COP27, UNFCCC

    Statement on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) at the Joint Plenary of COP27, CMP17, CMA4, SBSTA57 and SBI57 6 November 2022 I have the honor to deliver these remarks on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States in line with the statement delivered by the Group of 77 and China.…

  • AOSIS presents a draft protocol to the UNFCCC on GHG emissions reductions

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    1995, Climate, COP1, Mitigation, UNFCCC

    Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank you and members of the Committee for this opportunity to introduce the Draft Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction, which was submitted by Trinidad and Tobago on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States in September 1994 in accordance…

  • AOSIS discusses colonialism and the struggle for climate justice

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    2022, Climate

    Distinguished Panelists and members of the audience, thank you for inviting me to this panel discussion. I appreciate today’s topic, investigating the impacts of colonialism and island vulnerability. Climate change has its roots in colonial exploitation, because colonialism extracted vast amounts of wealth from small islands. To illustrate just how much wealth, let me share…

  • 39 Countries Call for Inclusion of Critical IPCC Science to the UN Climate Change Negotiations

    39 Countries Call for Inclusion of Critical IPCC Science to the UN Climate Change Negotiations

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    Climate, UNFCCC

    Countries among the worst-affected by climate change warn that a failure to include timely and relevant inputs will thwart essential climate action. New York, 21st February, 2025 The 39-member Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is calling for a global commitment to ensure vital inputs are provided for imminent reports from the world’s leading scientific…