CARICOM Heads meet UN SG at COP21

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.