Alliance of Small Island States

Type: Organization

Name: Alliance of Small Island States

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Clean Energy World Look: $1.3 Trillion Invested, 5.7M Employed

Around 1.3 trillion US dollars have been invested into the renewable energy sector since 2006 and the growth trend is set to continue, according to a new report by Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). The report also reveals that ... [Published EarthTechling - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Energy World Corporation Ltd, Alliance of Small Island States, Renewable Energy

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Finance ministers set for UN climate talks invite

Finance ministers are set to be invited to the forthcoming UN climate summit in Warsaw in November, RTCC understands.The move could be critical given negotiations on funding often require high-level commitments the environment and energy officials attending ... [Published Responding to Climate Change - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Climate, Warsaw, United Nations, Alliance of Small Island States, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Vulnerable states decry lack of progress at Bonn climate talks

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) Two weeks of U.N.-led climate talks in Bonn ended on Friday in an atmosphere of frustration, with participants bemoaning insufficient progress on everything from securing financial support for vulnerable poor countries ... [Published TrustLaw - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Climate, Bonn, Alliance of Small Island States, Warsaw, Climate Action

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

Russia challenges consensus rule at heart of UN climate talks

BONN (Agencies): It was a historic moment in U.N. climate talks: with most countries in favour and only a group of OPEC members objecting, the German environment minister chairing the conference banged down her gavel to launch negotiations on a treaty ... [Published Frontier Post - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Climate, Russia, United Nations, Bonn

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

REN21

Global renewables growth forges on: $1.3 trillion invested since 2006, 5.7 million people employed last year

DateLONDON: Around 1.3 trillion US dollars have been invested into the renewable energy sector since 2006 and the growth trend is set to continue, according to a new report by Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). The report also ... [Published The Climate Group - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Alliance of Small Island States, Renewable Energy, REN21, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 3 reports

European Union

EU positive over 2015 climate deal despite Russia row

UN climate envoys are confident two weeks of talks have seen progress in key sectors, despite a row with Russia that has threatened to overshadow the Bonn meeting.On Tuesday the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), which advises on the implementation ... [Published Responding to Climate Change - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Alliance of Small Island States, Climate, European Union

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

Tokelau to ask UN for special consideration for territories.

Tokelau will ask the United Nations to help colonies link up with international agencies so it can access funding for critical projects.The Ulu o Tokelau, Aliki Faipule Salesio Lui, says, while the impacts of climate change, coastal erosion and ocean ... [Published Radio New Zealand International - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Tokelau, United Nations, Alliance of Small Island States, International Renewable Energy Agency, Ocean Acidification

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 2 reports

Tokelau considering future of NZ relationship

The Ulu o Tokelau, Aliki Faipule Salesio Lui, says despite the special relationship with New Zealand the atolls still face many challenges, especially climate change.He says as a colony it is shut out of many of the agencies that could help.The Ulu’s ... [Published Pacific Islands News Association - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Tokelau, Global Warming/Climate Change, New Zealand

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

UN climate envoys urged to accelerate loss and damage planning

Countries at acute risk from climate change related weather events could slip into a poverty trap unless a mechanism for helping them cope with loss and damage is established, a leading climate scientist has warned.Compensating countries for destruction ... [Published Responding to Climate Change - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Climate, Bonn, United Nations, Alliance of Small Island States, Poverty Trap

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

EU: Time to crack down on HFC greenhouse gases

- A round-up of the day’s top climate change stories- Tweet @RTCCnewswire and use #RTCCLive hashtag- Contact the team at info@rtcc.orgEU: The EU has proposed tackling the potent warming gases HFCs in an effort to speed up cuts in greenhouse gases. Although ... [Published Responding to Climate Change - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Greenhouse Gas, Global Warming/Climate Change, European Union, Alliance of Small Island States, Montreal Protocol

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 2 reports

83 developing states call for clear climate finance & emission pledges

Concrete plans to deliver finance, technology and capacity building to combat climate change are still woefully inadequate, 83 developing nations have warned in a statement at the United Nations climate negotiations.The Alliance of Small Island States ... [Published Responding to Climate Change - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: Climate, Alliance of Small Island States, United Nations, Emission, Bonn

First reported Jun 01 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 1 reports

New UN deal could split developing nations: negotiator

The new universal climate deal could cause splits between developing countries as lumbering emerging economies come up against more vulnerable nations.As governments prepare to meet again in Bonn to advance work on the new 2015 deal, an East African negotiator ... [Published Responding to Climate Change - Jun 01 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Alliance of Small Island States, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ..., United Nations, Bonn

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...The next chance to solve the dispute will be at end-of-year U N talks in Warsaw. Tomasz Chruszczow, the Polish chair of the talks, urged "discussions at the highest political level on how to resolve the issue" before then...

Russia challenges consensus rule at heart of UN climate talks [Published Frontier Post - Jun 15 2013]

"It will certainly make the negotiations even tougher than they already are and strengthen the hand of those who want to water down the ambition or have as weak an agreement as possible, or even no agreement at all, in 2015" AOSIS's Jumeau said

Russia challenges consensus rule at heart of U.N. climate talks [Published CNBC - Jun 14 2013]

...on the continued rise of renewable energy, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said: "Driven in part by the UNFCCC process and various provisions and mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol, the increasing deployment of wind, solar, geothermal and other clean energy power sources serve as a powerful antidote to those who claim that a transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient future is unobtainable."

Global renewables growth forges on: $1.3 trillion invested since 2006, 5.7 million people employe ... [Published The Climate Group - Jun 13 2013]

"REDD-Plus is very important to us and we have to maintain that especially now that we have established two project sites, one in Vanua Levu and one in Viti Levu with the extensive involvement of landowners, non-state actors and academia."

STRONG LOBBY FOR REDD-PLUS AT UN CLIMATE CHANGE MEET [Published Fiji Government - Jun 11 2013]

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