Caribbean Leaders Sign off on Climate Change Declaration
The document makes a special appeal to the conscience of the world’s richest countries to do their part to help small island developing states.
Caribbean heads of state are hoping that the ‘Declaration of Fort de France’ will result in a unified voice to the unique challenges and solutions to climate related issues in their region.
The tourism-dependent countries have maintained that despite their small sizes and negligible contribution to global gas emissions, they are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
The 13 Caribbean leaders, along with Cuba’s Environment Minister attended the one-day Martinique summit, Saturday, which was chaired by French President Francois Hollande. The landmark gathering gave regional leaders an opportunity to put forward a joint policy position ahead of the 21st session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nationas Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December.
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