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TRINIDAD & TOBAGO GUARDIAN: "Farmers threaten to stop production"
11 NOVEMBER 2022
With hundreds of fields of fresh produce destroyed by flooding since the start of the rainy season, farmers are sounding the alarm that food prices will continue to rise. However, they are also threatening to down their tool until the dry season is approaching, saying it makes no sense to continue to suffer losses due to the losses being brought about by flood damage.
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- Category: 1.5°C Press
OECS COP27 Youth Highlight
10 NOVEMBER 2022
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States - the OECS - highlights the inspiring work of some of the younger members of Caribbean delegations on the ground at the UN Climate Change's COP27.
→ VISIT THE OECS YOUTUBE CHANNEL
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
The Guardian: "Anger at fossil fuel lobbyist numbers: what happened on fourth day of COP27"
10 NOVEMBER 2022
Daily round-up of acyvities at COP27 by The Guardian/Environment
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"More than 50 of the poorest developing countries are in danger of defaulting on their debt and becoming effectively bankrupt unless the rich world offers urgent assistance, the head of the UN development programme has said.
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There are a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists at Cop this year. There are 600 of them, an increase of more than 25% on last year, and they outnumber any one frontline community affected by the climate crisis.
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Protesters are not happy about this and have called for the “criminal” fossil fuel representatives to be booted out of Cop."
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- Category: 1.5°C Press
PANOS CARIBBEAN: Loss and damage is in – added to COP 27’s agenda
9 NOVEMBER 2022
PETRE WILLIAMS-RAYNOR/FELLOWSHIP
Stakeholders from Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) have welcomed the inclusion of loss and damage as an agenda item for the UN Climate Summit (COP27) now taking place in Egypt.
COP27 sees 120 world leaders and other stakeholders gathered to work out the best way forward in the global response to climate change. It is estimated that 45000 persons from 196 countries are attending COP27.
The vulnerabilities of Caribbean SIDS – who bear little or no historical responsibility for climate change but who stand to lose the most from its various risk and impacts – have made it critical for them to lobby for compensation for loss and damage arising from the adverse effects of climate change. These effects include extreme weather events, sea level rise, loss of biodiversity as well as land and forest degradation.
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne speaking on the importance of loss and damage finance for the Caribbean. (Photo courtesy Bianca Beddoe/Frances Fuller)
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
CLIMATE TRACKER: "Social development expert: Caribbean must redefine climate justice"
6 NOVEMBER 2022
Historically, human rights campaigns like the US civil rights movement and the black power movement have been viewed by some as “radical” movements.
But given their effectiveness in reducing socioeconomic inequalities and barriers to upward social mobility for marganalised groups, social development specialist Amílcar Sanatan wants people to consider radical politics as a transformational tool to reducing social inequalities.
With alleviating climate loss and damage at the forefront of most discussions at the upcoming 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, Sanatan is calling on decision makers to consider radical politics to deliver justice to marginalised communities which are on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
→ MORE ON CLIMATE TRACKER WEBSITE
- Category: 1.5°C Press
IPCC event at COP27: "Overshoot - What does it mean to Exceed 1.5°C"
9 NOVEMBER 2022
The Session addresses the concept of overshoot - exceeding then returning to or below a level of global warming - in the context of the long term global temperature goal. Overshoot in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) cuts across all aspects of the Climate Change Assessment Of Climate Responses, Impacts, Adaptation And Mitigation. Presentations from authors of the three IPCC Working Groups will discuss how overshoot has been assessed from a conceptual perspective, in future climate and socio-economic scenarios, the implications For climate, including extremes, and for natural and human systems, and the implications for policy development. The session will include an exchange with IPCC authors and policymakers on the state of knowledge, the gaps and needs to inform policy development and the UNFCCC process.
- Category: 1.5°C Facts
Guardian: "Climate finance and human rights fears: what happened on day two of COP27?"
08 NOVEMBER 2022
#COP27 Day 2 Round-up of Activities by THE GUARDIAN / ENVIRONMENT :
- Civil society climate experts called out “America’s decades-long game plan of denial, delay & deception” on loss and damage funds;
- Barbados PM Mottley, celebrates #LossAndDamage added to the agenda;
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- Category: 1.5°C Press
"Tuvalu becomes second nation state to call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty"
8 November 2022
Today, Tuvalu has united with their Pacific neighbours Vanuatu in calling on other nation states to develop a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, a proposed international mechanism to effectively regulate fossil fuel production and pave a clear, fair pathway for a shift to renewables in order to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC.
→ MORE ON FOSSILFUELTREATY.ORG
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley Visits Caribbean Pavilion at #COP27
8 November 2022
- Category: 1.5°C Press
T&T Guardian: Ryan Bachoo Report from #COP27
8 November 2022
"Major movement from Caribbean Leaders in Sharm El Sheikh Egypt where the COP27 Conference is being held. Ryan Bachoo is on the ground and delivers this report."
- Category: 1.5°C Press
In Pictures: The Caribbean at #COP27
Straight outta #COP27's Sharm El Sheik: A few pictures of the Alliance of Small Island States & the Caribbean hard at work to get rich nations to pay for their mess.
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
OXFAM: "Who is responsible for climate change?"
7 November 2022
Why wealthy polluters own the climate crisis—and what they owe the world.
The effects of climate change are all too visible in daily life. From heat waves in California and floods in Pakistan to water shortages in West Africa, extreme weather and rising temperatures are forcing people from their homes and worsening world hunger and famine.
But the climate crisis neither affects everyone equally—nor is everyone equally responsible. A new Oxfam research finds that just 125 billionaires emit on average one million times more carbon annually than someone in the bottom 90 percent of humanity.
“People who have contributed least to the climate crisis are right now suffering its worst impacts,” said Elizabeth Wathuti, a Kenyan climate activist.
At Oxfam, we’ve been holding wealthy polluters accountable for years. So we’re going to explain who is responsible for climate change—Big Oil, rich industrialized countries, and carbon billionaires—and what they owe the people and frontline communities that are paying the heaviest price for their actions.
→ READ MORE ON OXFAM AMERICA'S WEBSITE
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
Panos Caribbean: "CARICOM Climate Change Centre Bats For Scaled-Up Climate Financing; Wants Attention For Adaptation, Loss & Damage at COP27 "
7 NOVEMBER 2022
PETRE WILLIAMS-RAYNOR/FELLOWSHIP
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (5Cs) is throwing its weight behind safeguarding the introduction of a financial mechanism for loss and damage and progress on scaled-up financing for adaptation, at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27).
COP27, which got underway in Egypt yesterday (Sunday, November 6), sees the participation of global leaders, members of the scientific community and civil society stakeholders, including those from the Caribbean, who are gathered to discuss and negotiate current climate change realities.
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian: "Loss and Damage: Centre Stage at COP27"
7 november 2022
KALAIN HOSEIN
Wealthier, long-polluting countries globally are failing to meet their commitments to fight climate change and, specifically, falling short of arming developing nations to recover from the fallout of unfolding climate disasters. Climate reparations, or "Loss and Damage" payments, are set to dominate the conversation at COP27.
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- Category: 1.5°C Press
Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados at the Opening of the #COP27 World Leaders Summit
6 NOVEMBER 2022
- Category: Voices of the 1.5°C Allies
NEW STATESMAN: "Walton Webson: For us, climate change is life and death"
5 NOVEMBER 2022
“In many ways we [Sids] are the guardians of the Paris Agreement, because for us it’s life and death: it’s the reality of sustained livelihoods within a society or losing not just livelihoods but losing people and land, and the danger of becoming extinct – some islands will be swallowed up unless something happens,” says Webson. “These aren’t just words; this is a fact.”
- Walton “Aubrey” Webson, Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) current chair, ambassador and permanent representative to the UN for Antigua and Barbuda
→ MORE ON NEW STATESMAN'S WEBSITE
- Category: 1.5°C Press
NOW Grenada: "COP27: Why it matters for the Caribbean"
5 November 2022
Opinion / Kari Grenade, PhD, Caribbean Economist and Macroeconomic Advisor
The outcomes of COP27 are particularly significant for the people of the Caribbean because we are directly on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Financing, capacity building, and loss and damage are critical issues for the region.
→ More on NOW Grenada's website
- Category: 1.5°C Press
The Guardian: "Climate ‘loss and damage’: why it’s such a big deal at COP27"
5 November 2022
Global heating crisis is felt most by countries that are least to blame, so reparations are central to demands for climate justice
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- Category: 1.5°C Press
CLIMATE TRACKER: "Africa’s pro-gas stance, the coal problem… 10 big issues of COP27"
6 NOVEMBER 2022
VIVIAN CHIME
The two-week-long summit, otherwise known as COP27, will bring together over 40,000 attendees — including governments, businesses, and civil society organisations — who will participate in the conference and other related activities.
Now in its 27th edition, the conference has over the years brought world leaders together to recommit and improve their ambitions for cutting down emissions and reducing the global temperature to below 2°C, preferably to 1.5°C.
Here are 10 things you need to know about this year’s conference.
→ MORE ON THE CLIMATE TRACKER WEBSITE
- Category: 1.5°C Press
2022 - Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance: "Urgent and accelerated implementation needed at COP27"
27 october 2022
The Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance is calling for urgent and accelerated implementation to tackle the climate crisis and address the needs of Caribbean small islands developing states (SIDS) and other vulnerable countries.
As we look to the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Egypt in November, the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance is calling for urgent and accelerated implementation to tackle the climate crisis and address the needs of Caribbean small islands developing states (SIDS) and other vulnerable countries.
The findings from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report[i] are clear and highlight the need for urgency and decisiveness. An increase of over 1 ̊C in global temperature above 1850-1900 levels has already been observed between 2010-2019 as greenhouse gas emissions from human activity drive widespread and unprecedented climatic changes. Further, under the five emission scenarios ranging from business-as-usual to a future with ambitious emission cuts, a dangerous increase of 2 ̊C or more above 1850-1900 levels is projected by 2100. The critical 1.5 ̊C goal of the Paris Agreement will be exceeded during the 21st century unless there are deep reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades.
- Category: The Case for 1.5°C
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Climate Facts - - - The Caribbean contributes less than 1% to global greenhouse gas emissions, but is expected to be among the earliest & hardest-hit by climate change. - - - Floods, storm surges, erosion & other coastal hazards, exacerbated by sea-level rise, threaten vital infrastructures, settlements and facilities supporting our livelihood. - - - 28 of the 40 millions of Caribbeans live in coastal cities, towns & villages. - - - Deteriorating coastal conditions are expected to adversely affect fisheries and the Caribbean's value as a tourism destination. - - - CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS THE VERY EXISTENCE OF SOME CARIBBEAN ISLANDS. "Since 2009, more than a hundred Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries 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." |
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1.5°C Climate Change Voices
CARIBBEAN
The Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility
Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN)
Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM)
Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI)
Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI)
University of the West Indies (UWI) - Cave Hill
Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH)
Anton de Kom Universiteit van Surinam
Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA)
Association of Caribbean States
Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)
Global Institute for Climate-Smart and Resilient Development (GICSRD - UWI)
WORLD
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
International Climate Trackers
Climate Ambition Support Alliance (CASA)
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