As glob­al lead­ers gath­er in Belém, Brazil, for the land­mark Unit­ed Na­tions COP30 cli­mate con­fer­ence, the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) is de­mand­ing a de­ci­sive shift in glob­al cli­mate ac­tion to keep the 1.5°C warm­ing lim­it with­in reach. With new da­ta show­ing that glob­al com­mit­ments re­main far off-track, AO­SIS has for­mal­ly pro­posed a new agen­da item aimed at ad­dress­ing what it calls the “am­bi­tion and im­ple­men­ta­tion gap” in coun­tries’ cli­mate pledges.

The pro­pos­al, ti­tled “Re­spond­ing to the NDC Syn­the­sis Re­port and Ad­dress­ing the 1.5°C Am­bi­tion and Im­ple­men­ta­tion Gap,” seeks to es­tab­lish a ded­i­cat­ed space un­der the Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties serv­ing as the Meet­ing of the Par­ties to the Paris Agree­ment (CMA) to ac­knowl­edge the find­ings of the UN­FC­CC’s (Unit­ed Na­tions Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change) lat­est glob­al as­sess­ment and agree on con­crete ac­tions need­ed be­fore 2030.

AO­SIS said this step is es­sen­tial to en­sure COP30 be­comes a turn­ing point.