Earth Today | Caribbean reports to inform regional resilience

Jamaica Gleaner | 2025-12-04 | Original Article

CLIMATE ANALYTICS Caribbean recently used the platform provided by COP30, the global climate talks, to share their latest reports, anticipated to help to guide regional resilience building.

 

They launched the reports at a side event, hosted at the CARICOM Pavilion in Belem, Brazil on the margins of the climate negotiations. The launch event featured endorsements from key regional officials, including the Senator Dr Joyelle Trizia Clarke, minister of sustainable development, environment and climate action and constituency empowerment of St Kitts and Nevis; and Chamberlain Emmanuel, head of the Environmental Sustainability Division of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.

 

The reports are Refining the Regional Goal on Adaptation for the Caribbean, developed by Sasha Jattansingh, deputy director and senior adaptation and loss and damage adviser, Climate Analytics Caribbean; and Pathways to Global Stocktake Implementation in the Caribbean, developed by Kory Hall, energy policy analyst, and Kristin Qui, climate diplomacy adviser, also with Climate Analytics Caribbean.

 

“The updated proposed Regional Goal on Adaptation [RGA] for the Caribbean (RGA) intends to raise the visibility of adaptation to climate change in the Caribbean, quantify and fill adaptation gaps and needs, including finance, capacity and technical assistance, and enable collective review of progress on adaptation through more effective climate governance processes and practical adaptation actions at the local, national and regional levels,” Climate Analytics noted in a release to the media.

 

“The updated RGA could serve as a regional vehicle to support achieving the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) through regional leadership and collaboration on adaptation. In so doing, the updated RGA seeks to bridge the gap between Caribbean adaptation actors and activities at the regional, national, local levels and the broader GGA discussions at the international level,” it added.

 

The second report addresses how the region can effectively transition to a green economy in a way that will redound to the benefit of all stakeholders.

 

“With renewable energy accounting for only 12 per cent of total electricity generation in 2022, our region must triple renewable capacity and double energy efficiency improvements by 2030, in line with the Global Stocktake (GST), while also considering the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS) target of 47 per cent renewable generation by 2027,” the release said.

 

It proposes that, by integrating Global Stocktake implementation within Nationally Determined Contributions, CARICOM can “streamline planning, strengthen accountability, and attract greater investment”.

 

Minister Clarke gave her endorsement and urged enhanced international support to enable the Caribbean to rapidly advance sustainable initiatives to address climate change impacts.

 

“The Caribbean does not lack the ingenuity or the ambition to innovated. Where we are lacking in resources, the developed countries can support by staying true to their commitments for scaling up access to critical financing, technology, and capacity-building, so we can implement these innovations and make sure our region can, not only survive the challenges at hand, but develop sustainably,” the minister said.

 

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