Excerpt from dossierkoninkrijksrelaties.nl and translated from Dutch

The Curacao Ministry of Economic Development and the BES Embassy can look back on a successful presentation at the UN Climate Conference COP29 in Baku (Azerbaijan).

Together with the international platform Island Innovation, they organised a well-attended side event today on the financial challenges that climate change brings with it, for so-called Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs).

The theme of the Clinate Summit is ‘In Solidarity for a Green World’ and is focused on, among other things, the establishment of a new climate financing target and the five-year national climate plans.

SNIJs, including the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom, contribute the least to climate change, but are the first to experience the consequences and have little access to funds to protect themselves against it.

The latter was the central theme of the side event for which chairman Albert Martis of the Curacao Climate Change Platform and Special Envoy for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba to the EU and the UN Edison Rijna kicked off.