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Author: Laurie Goering WARSAW (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – To keep climate change to a relatively safe level, scientists say the world’s emissions of climate-changing gases need to peak in 2020, and then begin declining. However, a planned new global climate agreement, which U.N. talks in Warsaw are working towards this week, would only take effect… Continue reading Thomson Reuters Foundation Story Features AOSIS Plan

In what has become a tradition for AOSIS, it’s Leaders and Heads of Delegation met on the sidelines of the 68th United nations General Assembly this year to discuss the year ahead and reaffirm the bonds of an alliance that now spans over two decades. Meeting at a luncheon in Midtown Manhattan, the group held… Continue reading ‘The Stars Are Aligned for Small Island Developing States’

The latest IPCC report released today confirms with nearly the highest possible level of confidence that can be found in a scientific enterprise what island nations have been saying for over two decades: humans are the “dominant cause” of global warming and the impacts are causing life-altering changes to their environment and communities. The report… Continue reading IPCC Report Underscores Need For Practical Solutions

Island Nations took center stage at the 68th United Nations General Assembly this year, from Ambassador John Ashe., Antigua and Barbuda’s Permanent Representative to the UN serving as the body’s president to facilitating numerous SIDS hosting a number of high-level events on the meeting’s formal agenda and on the sidelines. “This island is sinking,” Secretary… Continue reading Island Nations Take Center Stage at UNGA

Following the first draft plan AOSIS made for work on raising short-term mitigation ambition, the proposal benefitted from the input of a wide variety of stakeholders. The latest version was officially submitted to the UNFCCC. In short, the thrust of the proposal is to engage the best and brightest minds working on climate and energy… Continue reading AOSIS Submits Proposal For Workstream 2 Under ADP

The June UNFCCC intercessional meeting in Bonn was the scene of another drawn out agenda fight that had repercussions for the entire negotiations. The debate played out in the line of talks under the Subsidiary Bodies for Implementation (SBI), which addresses several key priorities for AOSIS, including loss and damage. Russia, joined in its objections… Continue reading Intercessional Recap

A study by the Potsdam Institute published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that greenhouse gases emitted today will cause sea levels to rise for centuries to come, an impact with potentially catastrophic implications for AOSIS members. It found that each degree of global warming is likely to lead to… Continue reading New Research on Sea Level Rise