AOSIS Climate Change Summit

On 21 September 2009, on the eve of the UN Secretary-General's Climate Summit, AOSIS will convene a one day High-Level Summit on Climate Change.

The AOSIS Climate Change Summit will represent an important opportunity to review the current status of negotiations on climate change, only three months before the UNFCCC COP-15, which will take place in Copenhagen from 7 December to 18 December 2009. The main highlight of the Summit will be the adoption of the AOSIS Climate Change Declaration.

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Post-relocation survey - Tegua Photo courtesy of SPREP

Climate Change and SIDS

AOSIS was joined earlier this year by the Group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) – a total of some 80 countries – in demanding that global temperature increases be kept as far below 1.5°C as possible to limit the anticipated devastating effects of climate change on the world's most vulnerable countries.

Serious adverse impacts are already being felt by island states at the current 0.8°C of warming, including coastal erosion, flooding, coral bleaching and more frequent and intense extreme weather events. The U.N.'s lead agency on refugees has already warned that some particularly low-lying island states are 'very likely to become entirely uninhabitable'.

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