David Thurton, CBC News, October 18, 2023
Caribbean leaders meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week are hoping Canada will push their concerns — such as the profound threat they face from climate change — higher on the international agenda…
St Lucia’s Prime Minister Philip Pierre, speaking to reporters on Friday, outlined the issues that will be on the agenda as Ottawa hosts the Canada-CARICOM summit through to Thursday.
Pierre, CARICOM’s lead on climate change, said the world is not on track to meet the goals of the 2016 Paris Agreement. That agreement commits countries to working toward limiting warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels.
Pierre said he hopes one outcome of the summit is a message to the world, through Canada, that the region needs help to cope with the effects of climate change — more frequent and intense tropical storms, rising sea levels and hotter days.
The region, he said, needs Canada’s assistance to secure better financing terms from private lenders and multilateral development banks to help it adapt to climate change.
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