Excerpt from guardian.co.tt
The United Nations’ most important climate change conference, COP30, will start this week in Belem, Brazil. As world leaders and negotiators discuss the way forward in the climate fight, Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians and Bahamians will continue to pick up the pieces from what was left behind by Hurricane Melissa.
The closeness of the hurricane’s rampage through the Caribbean to COP30 might lead you to believe it could shake the conscience of negotiators and inspire them to ramp up ambitions at the two-week conference. Caricom Climate Envoy Dr James Fletcher said we have been here before.