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Climate Change Negotiations and AOSIS

2013
Atoll Island States form part of the Alliance of Small Island States, a coalition of States within the United Nations that share a growing concern about the environment and the effects that climate change can have on the fragile ecosystems of islands.
Lilian Yamamoto, Miguel Esteban
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International CO2 emissions targets and timetables: An analysis of the AOSIS proposal

Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 1996
In this paper, we use a two-region version of the CETA model to analyze international CO2 emission control policies. The policies we consider are all substantially equivalent to a policy recently proposed by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).
Stephen C. Peck, Thomas J. Teisberg
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1.5 To Stay Alive? AOSIS and the Long Term Temperature Goal in the Paris Agreement

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
The global temperature goals contained in Article 2 of the Paris Agreement1 have been widely touted as a major marker of the success of the agreement. In particular, the aspirational goal of pursuing efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was a surprise to many observers of the negotiations.
Lisa Benjamin, Adelle Thomas
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Beyond AOSIS: small island states’ presence and participation at COP27

Climate and Development
Small islands are at the frontline of climate change – and of climate negotiations. Yet while the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) has allowed small islands to collectively become a key player in UN climate negotiations, a focus on the group level masks important inequalities within AOSIS.
Klöck, Carola, Castro, Paula, Chin-Yee, Simon, B. Gurresø, Clara, Desmasures, Charlotte, Bouly, Elsa, Carrillo Risi, Diana, De Pryck, Kari   +7 more
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Gathering at the AOSIS: perceived cooperation among Pacific Small Island States

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2017
The Association of Small Island States occupies a unique role at the United Nations (UN) whereby it advocates on behalf of islands states (and those with similar geographies) on issues from climate change to development to economic initiatives and trade.
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Elsa Mentz and Anitia Lubbe (2021). Learning Through Assessment: An Approach Towards Self-Directed Learning. Aosis Publishing

Revista de la Universidad del Zulia, 2022
La relación entre aprendizaje y evaluación se explica a través de tres conceptos. Hay tres tipos de evaluaciones: evaluación del aprendizaje, evaluación para el aprendizaje y evaluación como aprendizaje. El objetivo de evaluación del aprendizaje suele ser sumativo y se completa al final de una unidad, curso, semestre, etc.
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The role of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in the negotiation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Natural Resources Forum, 1999
AbstractThe United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was signed by some 153 countries at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, represented a singular triumph for the geographically dispersed group of island states and low‐lying coastal developing countries, located in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans ...
John W. Ashe, Robert Van Lierop, Anilla Cherian   +2 more
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‘Borrowing’ Power to Influence International Negotiations: AOSIS in the Climate Change Regime, 1990–1997

Politics, 2010
While small island developing states (SIDS) are micro-contributors to anthropogenic climate change, they are among the most vulnerable to its impacts, with some islands even facing the possibility of extinction. Recognising their vital stake in an effective climate regime, small island states formed a negotiating group, the Alliance of Small Island ...
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CLINICAL UTILITY OF THE AUTISM OBSERVATION SCALE FOR INFANTS (AOSI) FOR PREDICTING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ASD) IN 12-MONTH- OLD INFANTS AT INCREASED LIKELIHOOD OF ASD

2023
Background: The Autism Observation Scale for Infants (AOSI) has been used to investigate early features of children with an increased likelihood (IL) of a later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Though independent research groups have evaluated its use in IL infant siblings (younger siblings of the children with ASD), recent studies have ...
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HSD101 Development of an Adjusted Outpatient Surgery Index (AOSI) Using Machine Learning Methods

Value in Health, 2023
P. Costa, P. Rebollo, V. Martin, L. González, Á Sánchez, N. Perulero, F. Priego   +6 more
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