In December 2009, the Tuvalu representative of the Alliance of Small Island States addressed the Copenhagen climate summit on behalf of AOSIS ’ s 43 members (one-third of which are located in the Pacific), presenting the summit with an alternative, more stringent proposal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, one which called for reducing the targeted ceiling on global warming from 2 ° Celsius to 1.5 ° C.
去（2009）年 12 月，由 43 個會員國組成的「小島國家聯盟」（其中 1/3 位於太平洋地區），透過吐瓦魯代表在哥本哈根氣候會議上提出一項較嚴格、將全球增溫上限從 2 ℃下調為 1.5℃的溫室氣體減排方案。