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Antigua and Barbuda has yet to receive any funding from the UN’s Loss and Damage Fund, despite mounting climate threats and the upcoming hurricane season.
Director General of Communications, Maurice Merchant, confirmed that while pledges have been made, the government is still awaiting disbursement.
“It’s a work in progress,” Merchant said. “Unfortunately, it takes a while before funds are secured.”
Established in 2023 to support climate-vulnerable countries, the Loss and Damage Fund had attracted US$741 million in pledges from 27 contributors by January 2025, according to the UN.
Prime Minister Gaston Browne, a leading voice for climate justice in small island developing states, has been vocal about the urgency of funding access.
In a recent UN address, he criticised the global financial system as “skewed, outdated and unjust,” adding that small states are being “shackled by debt we did not cause.”
So far, the response has yielded commitments but not cash.
Merchant noted that while financial transfers have yet to materialise, several countries have offered disaster response assistance should Antigua and Barbuda face future climate-related emergencies.
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Every year we hear promises, but the money slow to come!
Hurricane season around the corner and still no support? Madness!
Mi tired ah de wait. Climate justice supposed to mean timely help!
How dem expect us to prepare with empty pockets?
Why we always begging for what was promised long time ago?
Anxiety is killing them. They can’t wait to get a hold of that money to do what they did in 1995. Some people had not fully recovered years after the hurricane while someone walked away with $3.5 mil. and others took materials to construct shops and storeroom.
And if Antigua get them hands on climate funds what difference it will make? It will still be politicians get monies to disappear into their personal bank account overseas.
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