October 17, 2022

(CCCCC Press Release 2022/013)

(City of Belmopan, Belize)

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), in collaboration with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, with funding from the Caribbean Development Bank, Climate Analytics, The Government of The United Kingdom (UK), and Climate Emergency Collaboration Group, wrapped up its second preparatory meeting for Caribbean negotiators in Miami on October 15, 2022.  The key objectives of the meeting were to:

  • discuss what COP27 must deliver to pivot global policy and action towards higher ambition, accelerated implementation, and urgent innovative responses at all levels in line with a pathway to 1.5°C;
  • provide context of the relevance of the 2023 Global Stocktake and the 2025 New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance to outcomes that are needed for enhancing ambition in the near term and accelerating implementation urgently in order to secure 1.5°C in line with CARICOM/SIDS Priorities;
  • identify what COP27 must deliver to ensure progress on loss and damage in line with the CARICOM/SIDS priority to be able to access climate finance for ex post loss and damage responses;
  • identify options to reflect CARICOM priorities in the work programmes and workstreams relating to finance, mitigation and adaptation;
  • outline and agree on key political issues and options for their resolution to ensure CARICOM priorities are advanced;
  • refine options or recommendations for Ministerial Consideration; and
  • agree on main COP27 Headlines and Speaking Points

The meeting, which was held using a hybrid approach with participants in-person and on-line, was well attended by representatives of CARICOM Member states. The first 2 days of the meeting were strategy sessions which saw presentations from the CCCCC, AOSIS, and the CARICOM negotiators. A Ministerial meeting was held on day 3 which entailed remarks and presentations from the CARICOM Secretariat, CCCCC, the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, AOSIS, Climate Analytics, and the CARICOM negotiators.

In summarizing the overall purpose and outcomes of the session, Dr. Mark Bynoe, Assistant Executive Director of the CCCCC, stated, “The pre-COP Meeting was intended to bring together a number of Ministers and Negotiators to articulate specific positions moving into the COP 27. This was made possible through a number of initiatives and the cut to the chase. It is essential that we continue to defend the smaller countries in terms of resource financing, adaptation and mitigating, and Loss and Damage; while continuing to aggressively press ahead to deepen the chasm for all of these issues.”

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The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre is an inter-governmental Caribbean Community (CARICOM) institution that is mandated by the CARICOM Heads of Government to coordinate the Region’s response to climate change. We maintain the Caribbean’s most extensive repository of information and data on climate change specific to the region, which in part enables us to provide climate change-related policy advice and guidelines to CARICOM Member States.  In this role, the Centre is recognized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies as the focal point for climate change issues in the Caribbean. The Centre is also one of the few institutions recognized as a Centre of Excellence by United Nations Institute for Training and Research. CCCCC is empowering the Caribbean Community to act on climate change.

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