“We saw our Community operating as its best on the international front in Paris.  The coordination was superb and I want to say hats off to our negotiators – our technical negotiators led by Minister James Fletcher, the Minister of Sustainable Development of St. Lucia, and of course the role played by all our Ministers and Heads of Government.  I was there feeling very proud of the coordination. We were of a single mind. We were one body with several parts working together in unison to achieve a set of goals.”

“There was not one of the five or six issues that we went to Paris with that was not in some way reflected in the Agreement.  Again kudos to our negotiators, our policy makers and to the efforts that we made collectively”.

“We now need to ratchet up our capacity both at the regional and national level. We’re seeing that there are resources that can be available to us, and we have to be able to access those resources. We have to be able to take steps towards adaptation and towards mitigation”.

CARICOM Secretary-General comments on the CARICOM performance at the just-ended Climate Change conference, COP 21 in Paris France.

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