| 单词 | aosis |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAOSIS AOSIS n. (also Aosis) Alliance of Small Island States, a coalition of small island and coastal countries founded in 1990 to lobby for restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions and other (industrial) activities thought to contribute to climate change and consequent rises in sea level. ΚΠ 1990 Nature 15 Nov. 188/1 AOSIS would ‘be extremely firm in the negotiations to come’, pushing for limits on carbon dioxide emissions from the industrialized countries. 1995 Guardian 25 Mar. 4/6 Some countries would disappear altogether. Thirty-six of them have joined in an alliance, AOSIS, and demanded a 20 per cent cut by 2005 in 1990 levels of carbon dioxide emissions. 2009 Cape Argus (Nexis) 19 Aug. 9 An analysis by Aosis of emissions reduction pledges made thus far had revealed that these would achieve just 10 to 16 percent of the required cuts to meet the 2°C target. < as lemmas |
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