KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – The Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, says he remains optimistic that there could still be “a good result” emanating from the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) that gets underway at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow next month.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica is exploring the possibility of entering the carbon market upon finalization of the Paris Rulebook at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Government has lowered the volcanic alert level from Orange to Yellow, nearly five months after eruption of the La Soufriere volcano.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Monday said that students, decision makers, and citizens will soon be able explore the oceans virtually as part of the Knowledge Services subcomponent of the Caribbean Regional Oceanscape Project (CROP).
NASSAU, Bahamas – Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland, has called for urgent action to ensure improved climate resilience of small states and promised to amplify the concerns of small and other vulnerable states around climate change at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow this November.
WASHINGTON, DC – American Forests, the nation’s oldest national conservation organization, last week released its first nationwide tally of Tree Equity Scores (TES), which document that Black and low-income neighborhood have significantly fewer trees than wealthier, whiter communities, even in the same cities.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The United States Wednesday announced that it would provide assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean so as to increase significantly renewable energy capacity across the region by 2030.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries will participate in a regional summit on Wednesday in preparation for the November 1-12 global summit on climate change COP26, to be held in Glasgow, Scotland.
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – The Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC) Friday said it has made a payout of approximately US$2.4 million to the Trinidad and Tobago government following a rainfall event that occurred last month.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A new global report released on Wednesday has found that some Caribbean countries do not have multi-hazard early warning systems even as climate change and increasingly extreme weather events, have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years disproportionately impacting poorer countries.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados –The Barbados government says it has signed off on 39 license applications for individuals and companies interested in pursuing renewable energy business ventures in the island’s quest to be100 per cent fossil fuel free by 2030.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent –The St Vincent and the Grenadines government is challenging inventors within academia and private enterprise to explore the potential of using plastics, and possibly volcanic ash, as raw materials in the production of useful products.
UNITED NATIONS – A new report by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found that climate-related and geophysical events have resulted in the loss of 312,000 lives and directly affected more than 277 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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