Translation of "Alliance Small Island States " (English → French) :

Alliance of Small Island States | AOSIS [Abbr.]

Alliance of Small Island States

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

small island state | SIS [Abbr.]

High-Level Meeting on the Special Security Concerns of Small Island States

SIDS/NET | Small Island Developing States Information Network | Small Island Developing States Network | SIDSnet [Abbr.]

Voluntary Fund for Assisting Small Island Developing States and the Least Developed Countries to Participate in the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and its Preparatory Process

Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States [ OHRLLS ]

Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Accordingly, in the future, the GSP should focus on the countries most in need, such as the LDCs and the most vulnerable developing countries (small economies, land-locked countries, small island states, and low income countries) in order to help them play a greater role in international trade.

They produce half our oxygen and have absorbed most of the world’s extra heat and around 25 % of CO emissions. Many island (including Small Island Developing States) and coastal countries are dependent on marine resources and vulnerable to the potential impacts of human activities on conservation and sustainable use.

20. Considers that the EU has to present a list of the challenges it faces in areas such as the Arctic, Africa, the Arab World, and the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau (‘the Third Pole’), notably the potential for conflicts over water supplies; calls, therefore, on the European External Action Service (EEAS), the Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) and the Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid (DEVCO), in close consultation and coordination, to draw up a list of all countries and regions most vulnerable to climate change over the coming decades (including, in particular, the Alliance of Small ...[+++] Island States (AOSIS) countries whose very existence is threatened by rising sea level); calls on the VP/HR to set out the reasons for including each country or region on that list and the nature of the EU response required to prevent the risk of conflict or other humanitarian disaster becoming a reality in each case;

24. Points to the growing public awareness of the impact of climate change in the developing world, but also within rapidly emerging economies; calls for enhanced dialogue, in particular with the least developed countries, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and Africa, on the way to a binding international agreement on climate change in order to reduce the impact and foreseeable consequences of climate change on demographics, public health, migration and the economy in those regions;