“Your experience represents an early warning system for the rest of the world.”Īl-Jaber spoke to leaders from a 15-member trade bloc known as Caricom during an event broadcast online, saying that closing the climate finance gap is a priority ahead of the COP28 summit in Dubai in December.Īl-Jaber spoke the same day that the U.S.
“The peoples of the Caribbean have been on the front lines of climate change for longer than most,” he said. Sultan al-Jaber, the United Arab Emirates’ minister of industry, noted that high costs have prevented island nations from quickly adopting renewable energy as they face what he said was some of the world’s harshest climate impacts.
global climate summit urged more availability of funds to fight climate change in the Caribbean during a regional meeting Thursday in Barbados.
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