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CARICOM Heads to present action plan in Copenhagen

Dec 15, 2009 News

As the climate change talks intensify in Copenhagen, Denmark, CARICOM heads will present its perspective on the issues at stake in the Conference and its programme of action for surviving the adverse effects of climate change, in a special event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Copenhagen today.
This will be done under the theme ‘1.5. to Stay Alive’. The 1.5 degrees centigrade refers to the limit of the rise in global temperature which the Caribbean is proposing in order to minimise the effects of climate change on the countries of the Region.
Eight Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are among the more than 100 Heads of State and Government expected in Copenhagen as week two of the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) began yesterday (Monday) at the Bella Centre.
A total of 192 countries are represented at this critical event and the Leaders will make presentations at the High Level Segment which starts tomorrow.
CARICOM’s presentations will be made by President Bharrat Jagdeo, Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Hubert Ingraham; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Barbados, Maxine McClean; Prime Minister of Belize, Dean Barrow; Prime Minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas; Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica, Dr. Kenneth Baugh; Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Stephenson King; Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Denzil Douglas; President of Suriname Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan; and Prime Minister Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning.
CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington and Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development, Professor Edward Greene, are also in Copenhagen along with Dr. Kenneth Leslie, Executive Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) who is leading the technical co-ordination for CARICOM at the conference.
According to CARICOM, the four major elements of the international agreement being sought in Copenhagen include how much are the industrialised countries willing to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, how much are major developing countries willing to do to limit the growth of their emissions, how is the help needed by developing countries to engage in reducing their emissions and how adapting to the impacts of climate change will be financed and how is that money going to be managed?

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