In: News

The Climate Change and Sustainable Development Nexus
March 23, 2017

The Climate Change and Sustainable Development Nexus This article originally appeared on The Reuters Foundation site. By Thoriq Ibrahim The relationship…

Read More
Opportunity to tackle climate change may never come again – Thoriq Ibrahim, Maldives Minister of Environment & Energy
July 15, 2015

From Thomson Reuters Foundation It’s been a landmark year for global leadership in the effort to address climate change. China and…

Read More
US News & World Report Features AOSIS Commentary
April 22, 2015

[In the midst of U.N. talks over FFD on the road to Addis Ababa, and on Earth Day, the prestigious American…

Read More
We should not surrender to climate change – Dunya Maumoon
January 29, 2015

From The Guardian By Dunya Maumoon This month a team of scientists reported that melting ice caps and glaciers due to…

Read More
Maldives Delivers AOSIS Post-2015 SD Statement
January 19, 2015

Co-Facilitators, I have the honor to speak on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States, a coalition comprising 39 small…

Read More
Guardian: Warsaw climate talks: the world’s poorest cannot wait for a 2015
November 22, 2013

By Tony de Brum, Kelly Rigg and Mary Robinson: We are now at a tipping point that threatens to flip the world…

Read More
AOSIS Plan For Launching Rapid Cimate Action
June 13, 2013

Amb. Marlene Moses, writing in Reuters AlertNet, describes the AOSIS plan to introduce focused, results-oriented discussions on rapid implementation of proven…

Read More
Threatened small islands call for “concrete” climate action
April 30, 2013

A commentary by AOSIS Lead Negotiator, Ngedikes “Olai” Uludong, outlines the group’s expectations for the ADP discussions. Click here to read…

Read More
Small island states need action on loss and damage
August 17, 2012

Deputy Lead Negotiator Malia Talakai discusses the particular’s of AOSIS’s loss and damage proposal. Click here to read the full article…

Read More
New Kyoto Commitments Needed Now
June 11, 2012

Nauru’s Foreign Minister discusses why the Kyoto Protocol matters – to climate change in particular and the multilateral approach in general….

Read More