CARICOM Chairman, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of Barbados and Lead Head of Government on Climate Change Dr. Kenny Anthony of St. Lucia represented the Region in a meeting on the margins of COP21 in France between UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and leaders of Small Island and low-lying Developing States (SIDS), Monday.
Chairman of the CARICOM Task Force on Climate Change, and St. Lucia’s Minister of Sustainable Development Senator Jimmy Fletcher and CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque joined the Heads at the Meeting.
CARICOM Heads of Government are anticipating a robust, comprehensive legally binding Paris Agreement that commits all countries to limiting the long term temperature increase to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
