is the Alliance of Small Island States, an understandably vocal grouping given that rising sea levels are of more than academic interest to them. bubble is not what you might expect it to be. It is a system which lets several countries meet a reduction target together while having different individual targets. The Byrd-Hagel Resolution was a decision by the US Senate not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol unless it involved "meaningful" participation by developing countries. They argue in their turn that they don't see why they should slow their development by curbing their emissions when they didn't cause the problem in the first place.

Alliance of Small Island States. Group of 42 countries which are among those most threatened by rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change.

The Alliance of Small Island States is an ad hoc coalition of low-lying and island countries. These countries are particularly vulnerable to sea-level rise and share common positions on climate change, including the proposed "AOSIS protocol". Members include American Samoa, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cape Verde, Comoros, Cook Islands, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominica, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Grenada, Guam, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Jamaica, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tuvalu, US Virgin Islands, and Vanuatu.