The Al­liance of Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (AO­SIS) has ex­pressed con­cern over the find­ings of the lat­est Unit­ed Na­tions NDC Syn­the­sis Re­port, re­leased on Tues­day in New York City. The re­port, which re­views new and up­dat­ed Na­tion­al­ly De­ter­mined Con­tri­bu­tions (ND­Cs) un­der the Paris Agree­ment, re­veals that on­ly 64 coun­tries have sub­mit­ted their up­dat­ed cli­mate tar­gets, ac­count­ing for just 30 per­cent of glob­al emis­sions.

AO­SIS stat­ed that the lim­it­ed num­ber of sub­mis­sions and weak col­lec­tive tar­gets rep­re­sent a set­back in the ef­fort to lim­it glob­al warm­ing to 1.5°C. The group em­pha­sized that 131 coun­tries have not yet sub­mit­ted their up­dat­ed ND­Cs, de­spite the call for all par­ties to do so by Sep­tem­ber 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, glob­al emis­sions are pro­ject­ed to fall by on­ly 17 per­cent be­low 2019 lev­els by 2035, far be­low the 45 per­cent re­duc­tion re­quired by 2030 to meet the 1.5°C tar­get. AO­SIS said this short­fall in­di­cates a se­vere de­lay in ac­tion and called for re­newed com­mit­ment from ma­jor emit­ters.

The group not­ed that while there are signs glob­al emis­sions may be start­ing to de­cline and that ocean-re­lat­ed ac­tions are in­creas­ing­ly in­clud­ed in na­tion­al plans, over­all progress re­mains in­suf­fi­cient.

AO­SIS re­it­er­at­ed its call for coun­tries to act as cli­mate lead­ers by sub­mit­ting am­bi­tious ND­Cs. It urged the Eu­ro­pean Union to demon­strate lead­er­ship in the com­ing sub­mis­sions.

Ahead of COP30, AO­SIS is call­ing for a ded­i­cat­ed space to ad­dress mit­i­ga­tion gaps in the ND­Cs and to en­sure en­hanced and ac­ces­si­ble cli­mate fi­nance to sup­port im­ple­men­ta­tion.

The group high­light­ed that small is­land de­vel­op­ing states con­tin­ue to face se­vere im­pacts from ex­treme weath­er events, com­pound­ed by lim­it­ed ac­cess to re­cov­ery re­sources. AO­SIS stressed that the safe­ty and sur­vival of these na­tions must not be treat­ed as ne­go­ti­a­tion lever­age, but as a fun­da­men­tal right.

AO­SIS con­clud­ed that COP30 must de­liv­er stronger com­mit­ments, 1.5°C-aligned tar­gets for 2030 and 2035, and the fi­nan­cial sup­port need­ed to achieve mean­ing­ful glob­al cli­mate ac­tion.