Excerpt and Photo from sprep.org
The bloc of 39 Small Islands are anything but small when it comes to negotiating their survival at the UN Climate Change Conference. Preparing for the two weeks ahead, the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS) met ahead of COP29 with the call to stand firm for the survival of all humankind.
The Twenty-Ninth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 to 22 November. The Pacific Islands are also members of AOSIS along with the Caribbean, African, Indian and South China Seas States. Working together strategically to amplify their voices in the different negotiation’s rooms, the underlying call is that of 1.5 to Stay Alive.
This refers to the promise of the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius which remains technically possible for the world to achieve. Anything warmer and the impacts of climate change will be dire.
Nationally Determined Contributions – reports to be developed by each Party outlining their steps as to what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and just how much they are reducing them by – are to be developed every five years with the next NDC to be submitted from Parties next year.