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(VOICE ONLINE UK) ANTIGUA AND Barbuda’s Prime Minister has told wealthy countries to act quickly with climate change as smaller nations are paying the price.
Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, made the comments to other world leaders at Climate Week NYC, which brings together advocates and the UN General Assembly.
He is urging richer countries to make tackling climate change a priority and act quickly.
“For small islands, it turns every storm into a fiscal catastrophe,” Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne said.
Caribbean leaders have been sounding the alarm on climate change and how it will impact small island developing states (SIDS) for several years.
SIDS many of which still remain as part of the Commonwealth countries, are still at a higher risk of being embattled by the global climate crisis due to rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions.
The threat posed to countries in regions like the Caribbean were raised at the COP26 summit in November 2021, where government leaders of the CARICOM nations expressed concerns of reaching the global aim of limiting temperature rises to less than 1.5C and cutting CO2 emissions.
‘Existential threat’
In 2022, the Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Philip Davis, says the Commonwealth needs to lead action against climate change in order to combat the “existential threat” unfolding across the Caribbean.
The PM made the comments at the Marlborough House Dialogues with other political leaders ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which took place in Kigali, Rwanda, and in preparation for the COP27 summit in Egypt.
Speaking on the potential danger at stake for countries like The Bahamas, Mr Davis said: “We cannot do this alone. We are in an inequitable position on climate change so it is important that the Commonwealth lends its voice.
“And the time has come that the voice is turned up to ensure that we get the proper response from the world on this existential threat.
“One area we need to tackle vigorously is access to climate funding. The process for accessing climate financing is so tortuous that many small island states like ours have not been able to access funds we need.
“So, the voice of the Commonwealth of Nations needs to be a loud voice sufficient to bring awareness and the need for action not tomorrow but today.” (VOICE ONLINE UK)
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come hand up the money to trhat offshore account i designated in secret, i dont mess with the mangrove and swamps back in antigua and barbuda, only PLH in Barbuda destroy the mangrove and swamp for gulf course, and YEDA at crabbs destroy the mangrove beyond scintilla. it wasn’t me gaston brown, well i admit to going to parliament and grant buffer zone and other laws for the to do as they please.