Redesign climate change architecture to promote development in developing countries: CARICOM Chairman
The region’s challenge associated with the on-going Climate Change negotiations is that even if the goal to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2°C is achieved, the Caribbean will experience severe adverse impacts for which stronger programmes of adaptation would have to be implemented.
We most strongly advance the view that in this current situation the global architecture on Climate Change needs to be redesigned to also facilitate and promote the development of developing countries.
Chairman of CARICOM and Prime Minister of The Bahamas Rt. Hon. Perry Christie delivering remarks on behalf of CARICOM on Saturday at the Caribbean-France Regional Summit on Preparation and Mobilisation for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Summit was chaired by French President Francois Hollande.
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