The Ninth Summit of the Americas concluded Friday in Los Angeles, California with new commitments to climate adaptation, clean energy, and food security.
The Summit focused on “Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Future” and included the participation of leaders from across the Caribbean.
Both President Biden and Vice President Harris met with CARICOM members on Thursday and Secretary of State Blinken hosted multiple Caribbean Heads of Government during meetings on Friday.
As President Biden explained, “There’s a lot that I think we can and should do. This is a partnership. My intention is to intensify the relationship with the Caribbean. And I mean that sincerely. You’re critically important to us in every way, and I hope we’re important to you.”
U.S. and CARICOM leaders discussed Vice President Harris’s announcement of the U.S.-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate Crisis, or PACC 2030.
The new initiative will elevate U.S. cooperation with Caribbean countries to support climate adaptation, strengthen energy security, and accelerate the transition to clean energy, while building the resilience of critical infrastructure and local economies to the climate crisis.
PACC 2030 specifically focuses on improving access to development financing, a priority for the region.
PACC 2030 will work to expand existing access to project financing and unlock new financing mechanisms to support climate and clean energy infrastructure development in the region.
Key actions under this pillar will include increasing U.S. International Development Finance Corporation financing for climate and clean energy projects in underserved Caribbean countries, as well as collaborating with multilateral development banks and multilateral climate and environmental trust funds to improve the policy environment and unlock access to additional infrastructure financing for the Caribbean.
The announcement of PACC 2030 followed President Biden’s launch earlier in the week of the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity, a historic new agreement to drive the hemisphere’s economic recovery and growth.
Still reeling from the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caribbean and Latin America have seen the deepest economic contraction of any region in the world.
In his remarks Friday at the Summit, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne said, “Right now there’s a confluence of troubling global events that require our collective and strong leadership to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and to respond adequately to climate change and surmount the challenges of food insecurity and escalating oil prices.”
“My government welcomes President Biden’s announcement of a new Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity. My government is particularly pleased that President Biden’s Americas Partnership aims to mobilize new financing and to revitalize multilateral development banks, revamping their lending policies to better meet the specific needs of the majority of our nations,” said Prime Minister Browne.
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ANR you have presented misleading CAPTIONS of articles in the past but this one takes the cake. PM BROWNE MEETS WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN AND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS TO TACKLE CLIMATE, ECONOMY, AND FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGES. ANR I challenge you to produce the evidence to prove that PM Browne met with President Biden and VP Harris to have a discussion about those issues. The meeting was one with all the leaders of CARICOM. That being the case why are you singling out PM Browne. No where in the article is the meaning portrayed by the Caption substantiated.
I read the headline – I said, ok then, PM Browne had a private meeting with Biden and Harris.
I read the article – I said chuptz.
PM Browne was part of a group. The group is called CARICOM.
Why the pretence! What are you trying to prove! It is called stretching the truth.
Come on ANR!
@ CHARLES TABOR
Tabor , You are nothing but a Gaston hater . Tabor , what the hell Gaston has done You ? Hon. Gaston Browne best Prime Minister in the WORLD.TABOR and UPP will remain in Opposition forever. You and your Son Damani are the same.
Damani Tabor goes on OBSERVER RADIO every Friday and make HIMSELF an ARSE.
PUPPET DARREN MATTHEW WARD just sits and DAMANI does not answer His questions because Darren does NOT what the hell he is doing. Observer should called the show with DAMANI “ DAMANI TABOR RHETORIC HOUR “ . Shame on Darren Ward. Darren is a UPP Operative.
@ CHARLES TABOR
Tabor , You are nothing but a Gaston hater . Tabor , what the hell Gaston has done You ? Hon. Gaston Browne best Prime Minister in the WORLD.TABOR and UPP will remain in Opposition forever. You and your Son Damani are the same.
Damani Tabor goes on OBSERVER RADIO every Friday and make HIMSELF an ARSE.
PUPPET DARREN MATTHEW WARD just sits and DAMANI does not answer His questions because Darren does NOT what the hell he is doing. Observer should called the show with DAMANI “ DAMANI TABOR RHETORIC HOUR “ . Shame on Darren Ward. Darren is a UPP Operative.
FUNNY ENOUGH PRIM, THE UPP SUPPORTERS THINK THE SAME WAY ABOUT DARREN, THAT HE IS AN ABLP OPERATIVE.
EVEN ONCE, YOUR SUPPORTER BRAGGED THAT YOU HAD YOUR CONNECTIONS AT OBSERVER.
DEMANI IS JUST TOO MUCH FOR YOU USEFUL IDIOTS, HE EXPOSES THE ABLP DECEPTION AND LIES.
DARREN CANNOT HELP YOU ALL. PITY.
VOTE DEM OUT
Absolutely they cannot handle DAMANI not even Lie No Hell Max Hurst.
Yes it was a CARICOM meeting, Isn’t it customary for heads of state to meet on the side to discuss/emphasize certain topics mentioned during the meeting? How does one know the PM didn’t have a side meeting with the President and VP? Is the photo too much publicity for the PM? Maybe they doctor the photo too. Spinners and haters will do and say anything to propel their child/ren’s political career. Some people!
How does one know the PM DID HAVE a side meeting with the President and VP? YOU need to prove it and stop being the spinner that you are.
ALEX I see you are missing the point and it is mind boggling that you are missing a point that is so pellucidly clear as Sir Lester would say. Even if PM Browne met on the sidelines with President Biden and VP Harris, that is not presented in the article. PM Browne met President Biden and VP Harris at the same time as all the other CARICOM leaders. And the issue I have raised is that the caption of the article and the contents of the article are diametrically opposed. That is the issue and not your speculation that PM Browne could have met with President Biden and VP Harris on the sidelines.
Photo doctored to cut out Maria.
Charles Tabor careful BADMIND, ENVY, JEALOUSY, SPITE and COVETEOUSNESS dont tek you! imagine if that was the One Single Pringle representing us….. mercyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. That would be more CASTASTROPHIC than Franz DeFreitas “education reforms”
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