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The
Message

Climate Change is Real. What are the issues? How are we affected? Can it get better? How should be respond? In this section you will find a short text that offers an overview of what climate change means for the Caribbean and its people.

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The
Messengers

“The arts can make us act”, says Kendel Hippolyte, Caribbean playwright and poet. In this section, you will find videos, songs, poems and other artistic expressions of the reality of climate change, its impacts, and our response as countries, as communities, as people.

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The
Facts

Adaptation, Loss and Damage, Paris Agreement, Mitigation, Facilitative Dialogue, Kyoto Protocol … there are many concepts and instruments that relate to climate change. In this section, you will find definitions, explanations and links that will help you grasp the meaning of all these terms.

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The
Longreads

For those who want to go “deeper” into the issues and their meaning for the Caribbean and the world, here is a selection of websites, articles and scientific papers that examine the reality and challenges of climate change from various angles.

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We encourage concerned organisations in the Caribbean – government agencies, civil society and faith-based organisations, trade unions, community groups, scientific institutions, private sector groupings – to make their voices heard in this process. Where are we in our response to climate change? Where do we want (and need) to go? How do we get there?

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The [Longreads]

Be challenged by reading our selection of items published in the press, across the world, covering issues related to climate change, the Caribbean and fellow small island developing states (SIDS), COP23 and the road from here. To be further inform, subscribe to our Facebook and Twitter pages.

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