CARICOM Heads meet UN SG at COP21

Dec 01, 2015
SIDS and UN SG Meet (r-l) CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque; Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Enele Sosene Sopoaga; President of the Marshall Island, Christopher Loeak; President of Kiribati Anote Tong; UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon; CARICOM Chairman and Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart; Lead CARICOM Head of Government on Climate Change and Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Dr. Kenny Anthony; Head of CARICOM Task Force on Climate Change Senator Jimmy Fletcher.

CARICOM Chairman, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of Barbados and Lead Head of Government on Climate Change Dr. Kenny Anthony of St. Lucia represented the Region in a meeting on the margins of COP21 in France between UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and leaders of Small Island and  low-lying Developing States (SIDS), Monday.

Chairman of the CARICOM Task Force on Climate Change, and St. Lucia’s Minister of Sustainable Development Senator Jimmy Fletcher and CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque joined the Heads at the Meeting.

CARICOM Heads of Government are anticipating a robust, comprehensive legally binding Paris Agreement that commits all countries to limiting the long term temperature increase to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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