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The Gambia delivered a joint statement today on behalf of the Least Developed Countries and the Alliance of Small Island States on the importance of an ambitious Kyoto Protocol with environmental integrity. The full statement can be found below: Madam Chair, I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Least Developed Countries and,… Continue reading AOSIS and LDCs Deliver Joint Statement on KP

AOSIS’s Deputy Lead Negotiator and its coordinator on loss and damage outlined the rationale for the programme and the  group’s longstanding proposal on the issue in a recent commentary published on Reuters’s AlertNet. The plan is gaining traction at climate negotiations as impacts continue to soar leaving vulnerable countries to bear the costs of a… Continue reading AOSIS Presses Loss and Damage in Bangkok

Sai Navoti, lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, made a strong intervention on Wednesday during the ADP ambition roundtable discussions. He underscored the inescapable reality that short-term ambition is essential to keep global warming below 1.5 or even 2 degrees Celsius. Thus, immediately raising ambition in the short-term must be the priority… Continue reading AOSIS Makes Strong Call For Short-Term Ambition

At the opening of the UN climate negotiations in Bangkok today AOSIS called on parties to prioritise short-term emissions reductions and urgently commence work on the work plan for increasing mitigation ambition. The full media release is available below: For Immediate Release 30 August 2012 Immediate Progress Closing Emissions Gap Vital to Small Island Survival… Continue reading AOSIS: Bangkok Must Deliver Progress on Ambition

Perhaps the biggest challenge hanging over the international climate negotiations is the imperative need to ramp up mitigation ambition as quickly as possible. The “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action,” made progress in some political and technical areas, but on this key issue—bringing emissions in line with scientific recommendations—it fell short. However, vulnerable countries won the… Continue reading A Workplan For Survival

The legal cornerstone of the international effort to address climate change is on the chopping block as parties prepare for the upcoming UNFCCC meeting in Bangkok. With Canada announcing that it will pull out of the Kyoto Protocol when the treaty’s first commitment period expires at the end of the year and Russia and Japan… Continue reading Here we go again: KP on the chopping block

AOSIS’s Loss and Damage proposal received heightened attention at the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn last June, but the concept of having an international mechanism to insure vulnerable communities against loss and damage when mitigation and adaptation efforts fail can be traced to the earliest days of the UN climate negotiations. Unfortunately the new focus follows… Continue reading Loss & Damage

Rising seas and super-charged hurricanes may be the most dramatic of the risks small islands states face from climate change, but the increasing frequency of extremely high temperatures around the world – and their implications for agricultural production – underscore another climate impact that could prove equally disruptive: soaring food prices. The drought experienced across… Continue reading Small Islands and Food Security

Ambassador Marlene Moses, Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Republic of Nauru and chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), a coalition of 43 low-lying island and coastal nations highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, has sent a letter to international scientific organizations requesting input into the research dialogue… Continue reading Small Islands Call For Research On Survival Threshold