Photo and Excerpt from caribbean.loopnews.com

The Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance is calling for urgent and accelerated implementation to tackle the climate crisis and address the needs of Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) and other vulnerable countries ahead of COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The Alliance launched its “Caribbean Climate Justice and Resilience Agenda”, which outlines priority needs and actions by 2030 for vulnerable groups and wider civil society in Caribbean SIDS.

These priorities include:

• Curbing emissions to limit global temperature increase to 1.5˚ C
• Scaling up locally-led solutions for adaptation and loss and damage
• Improving access to and delivery of climate finance for frontline communities, small and micro enterprises and civil society organisations as part of a ‘whole of society’ approach
• Scaling up just, nature-based solutions for resilience
• Supporting a just transition for pro-poor, inclusive, sustainable and resilient development
• Promoting gender equitable and social inclusive approaches to climate action
• Promoting youth and intergenerational equity as core to the climate response
• Integrating a rights-based and earth-centred approach in addressing all these priorities and ensuring climate justice