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Sep 15, 2009 News
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has stepped up its meetings as it seeks to fine-tune a distinct position and have a strong voice when the international community meets in Copenhagen this December to seal a new global climate change pact.
The CARICOM Secretariat yesterday said that countries of the Caribbean have seen sea level rise and natural disasters as a result of climate change.
This is despite the fact that they are responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions which causes changes in the earth’s weather patterns.
Consequently, the CARICOM Secretariat and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) are currently hosting a meeting for the region’s foreign affairs practitioners and technocrats in St Lucia.
This is in order to further define the region’s climate change priorities for the negotiations leading up to and at the 15th Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) set for December 7-18 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The St Lucia meeting is just one in a series that form part of the Community’s strategy to highlight its priorities and position itself to ensure that the Region’s issues are fully addressed at Copenhagen, the CARICOM Secretariat stated yesterday.
One of the strong calls that the Community had been making since the start of preparatory activities for negotiations is that the Caribbean should go into the negotiations with a common position on Climate Change, particularly in relation to six critical building blocks that the Community feels must be addressed in the negotiations: a shared vision on Climate Change; the reduction of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions; mitigation and adaptation; the transfer of technology; capacity building and finance.
The ministerial conference in St Lucia is therefore a significant step in the journey to Copenhagen as it provides a platform on which the political directorate and other policy makers within the region can become intimately involved in the negotiation processes.
Meanwhile, the Caribbean is preparing itself for the much anticipated High Level Meeting on Climate Change with the United Nations Secretary-General on September 22 in New York.
Leading this charge is the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) comprising forty-three small islands and low-lying coastal developing countries which is the main body representing the concerns of Small Island Developing States at the UNFCCC meetings, and as such, this Ministerial Meeting will provide for the AOSIS, further recommendations for its upcoming Consultations in New York on 21 September.
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