📜 A week ago today at #PIFLM52, Pacific States Declared the Continuity of #Statehood & #Sovereignty, & the Protection of Persons, including with respect to human rights, political status, culture, cultural heritage, identity & dignity, in the face of SLR: forumsec.org/wp-content/upl…

As Leaders convene for COP 28 in Dubai, our school children brave flood ridden parts of Fiji today to sit their exams. This is our climate change realities. Also a week and a bit ago TC Mal hit us. We are a resilient people BUT Leaders do your bit. COP can't just be a talk fest

COSIS at #SIDS4AB🇦🇬 Join the high-level side event organized by COSIS & Co-Chair Antigua and Barbuda🇦🇬 on May 30 at 8am AUA to learn how visionary #SIDS leaders achieve #ClimateJustice with COSIS⚖️ COSIS looks forward to meeting you AOSIS at the conference

#PressRelease: At #SIDS4, United Nations Secretary-General says: “It’s Time for Climate Justice for SIDS” António Guterres joins #AOSIS in call for #climate & financial justice for vulnerable small island developing nations, at historic international summit. Read: aosis.org/at-sids4-the-u…

One of my The ABAS highlights was meeting Tuvaluan lawyer & leader Ese Apinelu Read her research on human rights in post-colonial Tuvalu here: researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/c9c1e15f-…

COSIS & Tuvalu on the ITLOS Advisory Opinion in Tuvaluan at the SIDS 4... youtu.be/3bXGQ9KkyV0?si… via YouTube

#PacificLeaders at #SIDS4 will continue to look to international oceans, climate law to guide action, ambition for world-leading initiatives for #SDGs - 🇦🇬 PM Brown and 🇹🇻 PM Teo with 🇻🇺 Minister Regenvanu sharing #COSIS #climatejustice impacts, next steps. #staytuned #ICJAO

Thanks and likewise. Let’s hope ABBAS will bring more blessings for the people of SIDS

How can #minority groups have an effective voice in #constitutionbuilding processes? Our roundtable report, based on the expertise of theorists and practitioners, makes several recommendations: buff.ly/3kIaXHG International IDEA

Join COSIS legal and scientific experts today at 1pm GMT+1 at the CSDLP webinar to discuss the role of #SIDS in driving climate action. 👉durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/97994242723?…

#PIFLM53 Pacific solutions for a 2050 world- the #PacificResilienceFacility fuses our climate realities to grants saving 7$ in building back for every dollar spent on #PRF disaster preparedness. Finau Soqo shares the next level for our #PacificResilience story. #Pacific2050

COSIS Co-Chair, Prime Minister Teo of Tuvalu🇹🇻 opened the High-Level Plenary Meeting alongside António Guterres and UN GA President 78&79, leading the discussion on #SeaLevelRise for #SIDS and needed international legal framework⚖️🌊 Watch at 20’13👉webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1x/k… #LawoftheSea

It’s rare to see such an overwhelming UNGA vote on a political issue like the US blockade of Cuba. The United States and Israel vote No, Ukraine abstains, and the rest of the world votes Yes. Remember this vote next time a US politician spouts about the “international community.”

Read this article on the #ITLOSAO Case No. 31 co-authored by COSIS legal experts Profs. David Freestone and Payam Akhavan, in the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law here 👇 brill.com/view/journals/… ⚖️🌊

On October 24, COSIS organized a High-Level Roundtable on Climate Change, Sea-Level Rise & International Law at the UN headquarters in New York, in conjunction with the UN 6th Committee session With its members & experts, ILC members, leg reps #SIDS #ClimateJustice🌊⚖️🇹🇻🇦🇬🇧🇸🇻🇺

COSIS at the International Court of Justice For the opening of historic hearings in the request for an advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change ⚖️ Watch the hearings here 👉 icj-cij.org/multimedia-liv… For press interviews 👉[email protected]

Today, COSIS presented its pleadings in the ICJ advisory proceedings on climate change⚖️🌏 Read the press statement👇 Watch the pleadings👉 bit.ly/3ZPK5JU Watch COSIS on Climate Change and International Law Secretary General, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change OACPS Secretariat Pacific Community’s press conference 👉 bit.ly/4fy63G1

Highlights and images for 13 December 2024 enb.iisd.org/international-… via @iisd_news

Crucial negotiations continue this week at the IMO as the world debates measures to decarbonize the shipping sector. Tuvalu stands firm with the PAC6+ coalition, advocating for a universal carbon levy that ensures both fairness and ambition. The time for decisive action now.

We are living in a legal system that says: “Two of us made the rules - and the first rule is that nobody must change the rules.” You might hear of this in a primary school playground. But it makes no sense anywhere else. And it is not a law that a democracy should tolerate.