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Chair of the Al­liance of Small Is­land States (AO­SIS) joined rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Least De­vel­oped Coun­tries (LD­Cs) on Tues­day at the Bonn Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence to ex­press con­cern over stalled ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Lead Cli­mate Ne­go­tia­tor for AO­SIS, Anne Ras­mussen, de­liv­ered a joint state­ment at a press con­fer­ence at the Unit­ed Na­tions 62nd Meet­ing of the Sub­sidiary Bod­ies. Ras­mussen warned that progress was lag­ging on key is­sues, and that glob­al in­ac­tion could un­der­mine the com­mit­ments made un­der the Paris Agree­ment.

Ras­mussen said that while the Paris Agree­ment’s 1.5-de­gree Cel­sius lim­it had not yet been crossed, sci­en­tif­ic re­ports in­di­cat­ed that the sit­u­a­tion was more dan­ger­ous than pre­vi­ous­ly un­der­stood. She said coun­tries must act with ur­gency and am­bi­tion to pre­vent per­ma­nent over­shoot of the 1.5-de­gree lim­it.