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ECO, civil society’s daily report on the UN climate negotiations, ran an article on Workstream 2 today. WS2 is a priority for AOSIS as it deals with pre-2020 ambition that is needed to keep global warming of 2 degrees or less within reach: (June 3, 2015) ECO ♥s Workstream 2 and has been looking forward… Continue reading “The TEMPting world of renewable energy supply”

As delegations converge on Bonn, Germany ahead of the latest round of UNFCCC climate talks, another strong El Niño has been forecast. Research suggests global warming could strengthen the event, which has significant implications for fish distribution and rainfall across the Pacific basin and may even be linked to the record flooding now seen in… Continue reading El Niño Builds in Pacific Ocean

The record heat wave in India this week, which sent temperatures soaring to an astonishing 50 degrees Celsius and killed more 1,100 people, serves as a stark reminder of the new reality of life and death in a warming world, and should add urgency to the U.N. climate talks that begin in Germany on Friday… Continue reading Deadly heat wave in India wave adds urgency to UN climate talks

By Lisa Friedman, E&E reporter Published: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 More than 25 years ago, the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of the Maldives foresaw the devastating consequences global warming held for it and other islands, and decided that banding together within the United Nations was the best way to form the political clout needed to… Continue reading ClimateWire… Maldives: Paris deal must give islands a ‘sense of security’

The United States, the world’s second largest emitter and first largest historic emitter, submitted its iNDC  to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change today, pledging a 26 percent to 28 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions on 2005 levels over the next 10 years. The submission formalizes a plan President Obama announced last November, in coordination with China’s… Continue reading Big Emitters Starting to Move on iNDCs

Against the backdrop of the death and destruction Cyclone Pam caused in AOSIS member state, Vanuatu, the Maldives Environment Minister, Thoriq Ibrahim, addressed the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States. The main issue being discussed at the talks–the  formulation of global strategies on… Continue reading Maldives Environment Minister Addresses Sendai in Wake of Cyclone Pam

FROM CLIMATEWIRE Lisa Friedman, E&E reporter Published: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 The mounting death toll and devastation in Vanuatu since Cyclone Pam smashed the Pacific island nation this weekend have heightened calls for a global climate change compensation fund. From the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, small island leaders said yesterday that the losses in Vanuatu… Continue reading Heavy storm damage to small island nation will affect Paris talks, diplomats say

The unprecedented power of Cyclone Pam, which left at least 6 dead and tore a swath of destruction across the Pacific island of Vanuatu, has focused attention on the role climate change plays in strengthening tropical storms. Vanuatu’s president, Baldwin Lonsdale, speaking to reporters at the United Nations world conference in Sendai, Japan, on Monday,… Continue reading Vanuatu Devastated By Cyclone Pam

Dear Mr. UN Secretary General, We are small and, to many insignificant. We are spread all across, yet we lie unknown. Day by day I can say we seem to disintegrate into this vast blue mystifying territory. I am an islander and I’m proud for there is no other place I would wish to be… Continue reading Seychelle’s student, Sonam Tsultrim, reads a letter to UNSG at AOSIS Ministerial