Antigua Targets Net Zero by 2040, PM Says
Prime Minister Gaston Browne said Antigua and Barbuda is aiming to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2040, a goal he described as ambitious but dependent on international support.
Speaking on the Browne and Browne Show, Browne said the country’s climate commitments are tied to its Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement. He noted, however, that reaching the 2040 target hinges on the availability of external funding to speed the transition away from fossil fuels.
“We’re committed. We have very ambitious NDCs. I’d say net zero by maybe about 2040. But it’s all dependent on how fast and the quantum of monies that we receive to facilitate that transition,” Browne said.
The prime minister said that despite pledges from large polluting countries, the level of financing that has reached small island states like Antigua and Barbuda remains inadequate.
“The funds are extremely small and they’re not really making a difference. When you look at the investments that we have made so far in green energy technologies, it’s primarily from the treasury,” he said.
Browne added that Antigua and Barbuda has already suffered extensive damage from climate change, including coastline erosion, crop losses from drought, and coral reef destruction.
He warned that if high-emitting countries fail to cut emissions and contribute to loss-and-damage support, his government may have no choice but to pursue legal remedies under international law.
Antigua and Barbuda, along with Vanuatu, has sought advisory opinions from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice to affirm the obligations of large emitters to protect the marine and terrestrial environment.
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So PM ditched the 2030 he was saying before because he knows it’s not possible.
As PM often do he says things that contradicts what he’s doing here saying he wants carbon 0 but APUA very restricts personal solar system units in homes, the people who has the money to buy solar for theirs homes are told they can’t do certain things with it simply because they want people to pay more to them.
The most important thing for solar batteries now a country uses most of it electricity during the night simular to Internet useable when people are home from work so you need batteries to supply that demand.
Not only that is needed for a farm it’s also wise to get more constant sources such as wind which I’m sort the government can get wind maps easier than me to see the most effective areas if you don’t want them on land it could be offshore among with gambling with tidal energy projects. But the most effective constant sources are geothermal or modular nuclear which latter would be hard to get support for when they see a government that can’t even keep clinics and fire station maintained so geothermal would be most appropriate depending on how advance geothermal continue to develop it can supply more power to help support the cheaper solar/wind duo to power the country and if it’s possible take advantage of thr fact we have Montserrat in seeing distance which can easier yet more from geothermal since they have an active volcano with a partnership to benefit booth of us.