Category: Documents
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High-level Meeting on Financing for Development for Small Island Developing States
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High-level Meeting on Financing for Development for Small Island Developing States Special Event at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development 30 June 2025 Excellencies, colleagues, friends, As we bring this High-Level Meeting to a close, allow me, on behalf of AOSIS, to express our deep appreciation for the meaningful engagement and solidarity shown…
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AOSIS Leaders Declaration on Sea Level Rise and Statehood
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PREAMBLE 1. Recalling that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been sounding the alarm on sea level rise for many decades, collectively beginning with the Malé Declaration on Global Warming and Sea Level Rise adopted in Maldives in November 1989, 2. Recalling also that SIDS as oceanic States, countries and territories place great value on…
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Letter to the Integrity Council of the Voluntary Carbon Markets on aligning with best practices
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Dear IC-VCM Board members, On behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, we encourage the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC VCM), following the conclusion of the Paris rulebook at COP-26, to look favorably upon including elements of Article 6 guidance from the rulebook:…
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Gender Responsive Climate Actions in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
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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…
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SIDS target 10 GW total installed renewable energy capacity by 2030
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Target and Timeframe: The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Lighthouses Initiative (LHI) is setting a target of 10 GW total installed renewable energy (RE) capacity in all SIDS by 2030. Context for the ambition: In launching the second phase of the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative (LHI) in 2018, SIDS and development partners endorsed that the SIDS…
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AOSIS prepares for the COP13/CMP3 of the UNFCCC
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The AOSIS Preparatory Meeting for the UNFCCC Thirteenth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 13) and the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties as the Meeting of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 3) was held in St. Kitts-Nevis on 7 to 10 November 2007. OPENING CEREMONY The opening ceremony…
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Communique from the Fifth Summit of AOSIS Heads of State and Government
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Adopted at the Swami Vivekananda Convention Centre Port Louis, Mauritius, 12 January 2005. 1. The Heads of State and Government of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) met on 12 January 2005 in Port Louis, Mauritius. The meeting was chaired by The Honourable Paul Raymond Bérenger G.C.S.K, Prime Minister of the Republic of Mauritius…
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AOSIS Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change in Buenos Aires
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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…
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AOSIS Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change in Buenos Aires
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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…
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Report of the AOSIS Meeting of Experts on Waste Management
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1. INTRODUCTION The Meeting of Experts on Waste Management for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) was held at Hotel Nacional, Havana (Cuba). It brought together experts from all SIDS regions and from a variety of backgrounds, such as government trade officials and representatives from educational institutions, waste management, private business and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). A…