How we work together at the COP for our One Pacific Voice to be effective.
There are many areas to be negotiated during the COP30 in Belem of which there are 13 thematic priorities for the Pacific Small Islands Developing States to be negotiated at COP30. Given this is a vast negotiations field happening at the same time, the PSIDS Parties work together to keep everyone informed.
To undertake this, each negotiations area has a team of negotiators from across the PSIDS that work together which is led by a Pacific Islands Party. They are also shadowed and supported by a CROP agency for which some themes consist of both a lead and a support CROP Agency, or just a lead CROP Agency member.
PSIDS Coordination is how the Pacific Islands Parties strategically plan for, and undertake, their negotiations. This involves all leads coming together regularly throughout the negotiations to update their counterparts and seek guidance where needed. This way, the full Pacific Small Islands Party delegations are kept well informed of what is happening in each of the 13 thematic priorities.
This coordination mechanism is chaired by the Chair of the Pacific Small Islands Developing States, currently Tuvalu, with the support of SPREP.
The Pacific Islands Parties also coordinate with AOSIS, which meet twice a day to update the full AOSIS Parties which consist of 39 small island and low-lying coastal developing states.
Some of the Pacific Island Parties are also members of the G77 and China, and LDC groupings within the UNFCCC process.
Below we have the list of 13 thematic priority areas with links to more information, the country that is leading this negotiations team, and the CROP agencies that are providing lead and support assistance.
These are:
1. Adaptation for which the lead coordinator is Samoa assisted by SPREP as lead and SPC as support CROP Agencies.
2. Agriculture is led by Fiji as lead coordinator, supported by SPC as lead CROP Agency.
3. Article 6 of the Paris Agreement is coordinated by Palau supported by SPREP as lead CROP Agency.
4. Capacity Building and Technology is led by SPREP as lead CROP Agency.
5. Climate Finance is led by Tuvalu as the PSIDS coordinator supported by PIFS as lead and SPREP with SPC as the support CROP Agencies.
6. Gender for which the lead coordinator is Fiji with SPREP as the Lead and PIFS with SPC as the support CROP Agencies.
7. Global Stocktake is led by Vanuatu as the lead coordinator for PSIDS with support from SPREP as lead and SPC as support CROP Agencies.
8. Just Transition is led by Fiji as the PSIDS coordinator with support from SPREP as lead and PIFS as support CROP Agencies.
9. Loss and Damage which is led by the Cook Islands and Fiji as PSIDS coordinators supported by SPREP as lead and SPC as support CROP Agencies.
10. Mitigation which is led by Samoa and supported by SPREP as Lead and SPC as support CROP Agencies.
11. Oceans is led by Fiji as the PSIDS coordinator supported by SPC as lead and FFA as support CROP Agencies.
12. Research, Scientific Observation which is led by Kiribati and supported by SPREP as lead CROP Agency.
13. Transparency is led by Vanuatu and supported by SPREP as lead CROP Agency.