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Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is a coalition of small island and low-lying coastal countries founded in 1990. The main purpose of the alliance is to consolidate the voices of small island developing states to address global climate change. AOSIS has been very active from its inception putting forward the first draft text in the Kyoto Protocol negotiations as early as 1994. AOSIS has 43 members and observers from all around the world.






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Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is a coalition of small island and low-lying coastal countries founded in 1990. The main purpose of the alliance is to consolidate the voices of small island developing states to address global climate change. AOSIS has been very active from its inception putting forward the first draft text in the Kyoto Protocol negotiations as early as 1994. AOSIS has 43 members and observers from all around the world. 37 are members of the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
. The alliance represents 28% of the developing countries, 20% of the UN's total membership and 5% of the world population
World population

The world population is the total number of living humans on Earth at a given time. As of March 2009, the world's population is estimated to be about 6.76 1,000,000,000 ....
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AOSIS Member States


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Also, AOSIS has four observers: American Samoa
American Samoa

American Samoa is an Territories of the United States of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa....
, Guam
Guam

Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated insular area of the United States....
, Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Antilles

The Netherlands Antilles , previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, is part of the Lesser Antilles and consists of two island group in the Caribbean Sea: Cura?ao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, located southeast of the Virgin Islands....
, US Virgin Islands

See also

  • Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
    ACP countries

    The ACP States , alternately called the Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries are the countries that are signatories of the Lom? Convention....
     (ACP)
  • Small Island Developing States
    Small Island Developing States

    Small Island Developing States are low-lying coastal countries that tend to share similar sustainable development challenges, including small but growing populations, limited resources, remoteness, susceptibility to natural disasters, vulnerability to external shocks, excessive dependence on international trade, and fragile environments....
     (SIDS)
  • Barbados Program of Action (BPOA)


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