ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are hoping to raise three main issues during their summit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa later this month, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said on Tuesday, 3 October.
Skerrit, who is also the Chair of CARICOM, told reporters that the October 17-19 meeting will be discussing issues related to climate change and Haiti.
Skerrit said that on the issue of climate change, the regional leaders will look towards Canada, a member of the G7 grouping “to do more in their response to the issue of climate change and the impact of it having on the countries in the Caribbean.” …
Skerrit said that the developed countries have been speaking about establishing a US$100 billion fund to assist developing countries to deal with the impact of climate change, but “the new estimate really is US$2.3 trillion developing countries would require if we are to seriously address and assist us in building resilience against the impact of climate change.”
The CARICOM Chairman said that regional countries are going to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 28) in Dubai from November 30 to December 12 “to get some commitments from the Canada-CARICOM summit.”
He said another issue to be discussed at the summit has to do with the international financial architecture, noting that CARICOM countries have already adopted the Barbados-led Bridgetown Initiative aimed at reforming the way rich countries finance poor countries in a climate crisis….
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