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11 NOVEMBER 2021
“We have limited resources, we are throwing everything we have at achieving this, but we are running out of time to reverse the destructive environmental practices that are already having severe consequences for small island developing states.”
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10 NOVEMBER 2021 - ZICO COZIER
Trinidad and Tobago’s ambitions for cutting greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) are “not sufficiently bold” and based on “low-hanging fruit”, head of the Energy Unit at the Caricom Secretariat Dr Devon Gardner has said.
10 NOVEMBER 2021
Republic Group in collaboration with New Energy Events has announced the launch of the inaugural Caribbean ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) and Climate Financing Summit to be held on November 17 to 18.Republic Group in collaboration with New Energy Events has announced the launch of the inaugural Caribbean ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) and Climate Financing Summit to be held on November 17 to 18.
In a statement the group said the importance of sustainable business practices is now more apparent in all the Republic Group’s markets and as such there is need to increase its involvement and support in this space.
The main aim is that this summit will bring together Caribbean borrowers, lenders and investors and act as a catalyst in the creation of a new financing ecosystem, it added.
11NOVEMBER 2021
For as long as there have been international climate talks, Saleemul Huq, a botanist from Bangladesh, has quietly counseled diplomats and activists from the global south on the prickliest question: What is owed to countries least responsible for the problem of global warming but most harmed by its effects — and by whom?
This year, there’s a big shift.
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“The term ‘loss and damage’ is a euphemism for terms we’re not allowed to use, which are ‘liability and compensation,’” Mr. Huq said. “‘Reparations’ is even worse.”
10 NOVEMBER 2021
At a surprise announcement in the waning days of the COP26 summit, the world’s two largest emitters — China and the United States — said they would work together to slow warming during this decade and ensure that the Glasgow climate conference ends in success.
10 NOVEMBER 2021
To be considered a success, CoP26 negotiations will need secure aggressive GHG emission reduction commitments from the world’s largest emitters, or as Palau’s President, the Honorable Surangel Whipps Jr told the CoP: “… [y]ou might as well bomb us [poorer, smaller and most likely to be affected countries.]”
8 NOVEMBER 2021
Climate justice means many things to many people, but at its core is the recognition that those who are disproportionately impacted by climate change tend not to be those most responsible for causing it. Climate change is not only an environmental problem: it interacts with social systems, privileges and embedded injustices, and affects people of different class, race, gender, geography and generation unequally. The climate solutions proposed by climate justice advocates aim to address long-standing systemic injustices.
10 NOVEMBER 2021
(...) It’s become increasingly clear that numerous Western outlets have more journalists here than many entire countries, sometimes significantly so. Access and exclusion have been huge stories at COP26—some of the countries most immediately threatened by the climate crisis were unable to send their leaders, never mind activists and concerned citizens—for reasons ranging from cost to COVID to both. There are excellent journalists from the Global South on the ground here (indeed, I featured some of their work in my dispatch for CJR on Tuesday) and many more covering COP remotely; many Western journalists, meanwhile, have shone a spotlight on very vulnerable countries, both in their coverage and during live events such as those at the Climate Hub. Still, as far as physical representation goes, media is very clearly part of the broader, highly unequal trend.
8 NOVEMBER 2021
"Le-Anne Roper, lead negotiator on loss and damage for the Alliance of Small Island States, wants a new finance goal for loss and damage: 'It is the only way we will be able to give our people a better chance at surviving.'"
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
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