Opening Address by the Secretary-General of CARICOM Dr Carla N. Barnett at the Opening Ceremony of the “2022 Global Environmental Justice Conference” (Yale School of the Environment) New Haven, CT, USA, 13 October 2022

Focus: Intersection of equitable climate action and sustainable development. Theme: Re-imagining Our Collective Future: Advancing Climate Justice, Food Security and Energy Transition in an Age of Uncertainty Dr. Ingrid C. “Indy” Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, Yale School of the Environment...
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Regional environmental negotiators in preparations for COP15

Environmental officials from Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic participated recently in a training workshop in Saint Lucia as the Region continues preparations for the Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity...
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Keynote Address by CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett to the Regional Conference of the ‘Closing the Circle: Marine Debris, Sargassum and Marine Spatial Planning Research and Capacity Building Programme, Dominica, 5 April 2022

Your Excellency Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica; Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, President, World Maritime University; Distinguished Delegates; Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my distinct pleasure to address this first session of this series of Conferences faci...
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Observing World Oceans Day, June 8th 2021: CARICOM Secretariat

The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods Recognition of World Oceans Day coming on the heels of World Biodiversity and Environment days is an exclamation point for small island and low-lying coastal developing States.  Our dependence on the natural environment for life and livelihoods is actualized i...
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CARICOM SG calls for fairness in international financing for SIDs

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has made a call for fairness in international financing for Small Island Developing States (SIDs), noting that they have been experiencing a battering from climate impacts, not of their own making. “We have had to face the ...
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Caribbean Climate Risk Brief Launched

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre announces the publication of the Caribbean Climate-Fragility Risk Brief. The Brief describes the climate of the Caribbean, provides examples of major extreme events that have affected the region and details how climate change may exacerbate future events...
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