The Caribbean Group (CARICOM) is making ready for the Twenty-Ninth Session of the Convention of the Events (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC), scheduled to happen from November 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
This pivotal occasion will see CARICOM Member States advocating for pressing local weather motion and sturdy monetary commitments to handle the distinctive vulnerabilities of Small Island Growing States (SIDS).
CARICOM’s strategy to COP29 is anchored within the ideas of limiting world warming to under 1.5 C, emphasising science-driven motion and reinforcing the particular circumstances of SIDS. It’s a landmark yr for financing as CARICOM seeks to safe a local weather finance objective that ensures entry for SIDS to grant-based or concessional finance, particularly for Adaptation and Loss and Harm respectively, via minimal allocation flooring and highest ranges of concessionality for SIDS.
Ministerial Management and Advocacy
In preparation for COP29, CARICOM will proceed its advocacy at a number of key occasions, with coordinated messaging. To reinforce the Area’s illustration and coordination, the Area has recognized Ministerial Champions for key negotiation areas:
- Simply Transition: Pennelope Beckles-Robinson, Minister of Planning and Improvement, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Finance and the New Collective Quantified Purpose (NCQG): Orlando Habet, Minister of Sustainable Improvement and Local weather Change, Belize.
- International Stocktake: Kerryne James, Minister of Local weather Resilience, the Surroundings, and Renewable Power, Grenada.
- Markets: Dr. Marciano Dasai, Minister of Spatial Planning and Surroundings, Suriname.
- Adaptation: Cozier Frederick, Minister for the Surroundings, Rural Modernisation and Kalinago Upliftment, Dominica.
A Ministerial Champion may even be recognized for Loss and Harm.
These Ministers will spearhead high-level political advocacy on the upcoming negotiations and interact in key bilateral conferences within the margins, to make sure CARICOM priorities are recognised and mirrored in COP29 outcomes.
Unified Regional Voice
At their Forty-Seventh Common Assembly held in July, CARICOM Heads of Authorities reiterated the significance of unified advocacy and messaging within the annual local weather negotiations, emphasising the urgency of local weather motion and a sturdy local weather finance objective to fulfill the wants of SIDS. That is essential as Member States of CARICOM restore the injury from Hurricane Beryl, whose file power in June resulted in a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in damages at first of the annual Atlantic hurricane season.
The Group is anticipated to have a robust presence at COP 29, together with Heads of Authorities, Ministers, negotiators, youth delegates, and consultants from the CARICOM Secretariat and different regional establishments.
