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Climate Change is an existential threat for the Caribbean. Since 2009, Small Island Developing States and many others have been calling for limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels to prevent the worst of climate change impacts. The inclusion of a 1.5°C temperature limit in the 2015 Paris Agreement was a major victory for vulnerable countries. Since 2015, #1point5toStayAlive is a Panos Caribbean initiative to help make the Caribbean's case for 1.5°C. |
#1point5toStayAlive Frontpage News
ANTIGUA NEWSROOM: "PM says COP26 turned out to be just another public relations exercise"
8 NOVEMBER 2021
"#COP26 turned out primarily to be a public relations exercise for a number of leaders, and the type of ambitious commitments that we require in order to address these existential issues, those commitments weren’t made.” — Prime Minister Gaston Browne, Antigua & Barbuda
- Category: 1.5°C Press
GUARDIAN: "COP26: world on track for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report"
9 NOVEMBER 2021
The world is on track for disastrous levels of global heating far in excess of the limits in the Paris climate agreement, despite a flurry of carbon-cutting pledges from governments at the UN COP26 summit.
- Category: 1.5°C Press
DW: "COP26: Whom should developing countries bill for climate impacts?"
8 NOVEMBER 2021
Antigua and Barbuda's Environment Minister Joseph: "We are being responsible global citizens. We are cleaning up our environment. And at the same time, we have been victims of the polluters."
- Category: 1.5°C Press
The Guardian: "What has COP26 achieved so far?"
7 NOVEMBER 2021
Agreements on deforestation, methane and coal were welcome news. Less so was some countries’ absence from major initiatives.
- Category: 1.5°C Press
COP 26 Presidency Event: "Exploring Loss and Damage - Global perspectives for action"
8 NOVEMBER 2021
PM of Barbados Mia Mottley kicks off open & honest discussion to deepen understanding of #LossAndDamage and ways to avert, minimize and address it.
Even with a rapid scale-up of adaptation action, climate change will still have an impact. So the risk of losses and damages from climate change is growing. This session will bring together experts to deepen our understanding of loss and damage as well as debate how we can take practical actions to avert, minimise and address loss and damage.
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
OECS: "OECS is Making its Voice Heard at COP26 in the Race to Deal With Climate Change"
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: "Crunch Time at COP26: Five Things to Watch for as Glasgow Climate Talks Enter Second Week"
8 NOVEMBER 2021
As the second week of the annual UN climate talks in Glasgow—also called COP26—gets underway, negotiations are entering the crunch period. After all the speeches and a flurry of voluntary initiatives announced by politicians in the first week, it’s now time for real talk about what countries will actually commit to doing as part of an agreement. Specifically, will Glasgow deliver a transparent, robust and inclusive agreement to help keep global climate goals within reach, ramp up climate finance for developing countries and address the loss and damage caused by extreme unavoidable climate impacts?
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THE CONVERSATION: "Climate change is a justice issue – these 6 charts show why"
3 NOVEMBER 2021
To reduce climate change and protect those who are most vulnerable, it’s important to understand where emissions come from, who climate change is harming and how both of these patterns intersect with other forms of injustice.
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- Category: 1.5°C Facts
CDB: "CDB Proposes a Resilience-Adjusted GNI Measure for Small Island Developing Economies to Access Concessional Finance"
4 NOVEMBER 2021
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has proposed a resilience-adjusted Gross National Income (GNI) measure for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to access concessional finance.
Termed the Recovery Duration Adjuster (RDA), this measurement framework better reflects the economic, social, and environmental realities of SIDS, including those in the Caribbean region. The framework is based on two key principles. Firstly, it takes a holistic view of development needs and incorporates underlying structural weaknesses, high debt levels, and insufficient investment in resilient infrastructure as important inputs in determining the extent of a country’s vulnerability to exogenous shocks.
- Category: 1.5°C Press
GUARDIAN: "Never mind aid, never mind loans: what poor nations are owed is reparations"
5 NOVEMBER 2021 - GEORGE MONBIOT
By framing the pittance they offer as a gift, rather than as compensation, the states that have done most to cause this catastrophe can position themselves, in true colonial style, as the heroes who will swoop down and rescue the world.
- Category: 1.5°C Press
CANARI: "In confronting the climate crisis, workers are a critical part of the solution"
5 NOVEMBER 2021 - SANDRA MASSIAH
Every day, whether it is during or outside of the hurricane season, people who live and work in SIDS know only too well that climate change is a reality and that it affects everything that they do. Workers especially feel first-hand the impact of increasingly intense hurricanes, floods, longer periods of drought, and intense heat. Public services workers are on the frontlines responding to the impact of the climate crisis. And perhaps better than anyone, they know that there is a very high price to pay for inaction.
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
NEW STATESMAN: "It is climate inaction that will lead to people living more difficult lives"
4 NOVEMBER 2021 - MICHAEL MANN
To borrow from the iconic film The Usual Suspects, the greatest trick the fossil fuel industry ever pulled was convincing the world that climate action would require sacrifice, for just the opposite is true.
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CNG MEDIA: "OECS signs Glasgow declaration on climate action in tourism"
5 NOVEMBER 2021
CASTRIES, St Lucia — The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has committed to working with tourism stakeholders on Climate Change, and announced that it has become a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism.
- Category: 1.5°C Press
Dr. JAMES FLETCHER: "SIDS continue to have to fight tooth and nail to get the smallest concessions"
4 NOVEMBER 2021 - Dr. JAMES FLETCHER
Prime Minister Mia Mottley delivered the speech at COP26 that all negotiators from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been waiting and yearning to hear a SIDS head of government deliver on our behalf for years. She hit on all the right points, she spoke with the authority and confidence of someone who understood the subject, she commanded the stage and she delivered with a passion and eloquence that caused every international leader and celebrity in the audience to listen with rapt attention.
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
POLITICO / USA: "A $130T climate promise is greeted with suspicion"
3 NOVEMBER 2021
Political leaders are showering financial titans with praise at global climate talks. But their show of pageantry and back-patting is masking a deeper concern: that the banking industry’s pledges to help fight global warming are vague and unenforceable.
- Category: 1.5°C Press
