Climate justice pressure
Three Caribbean leaders aimed their proverbial ‘pistols’ at the developed world this week, calling for climate change financing and reminding anyone who would listen that the region is one of the smallest polluters on the planet but is still among areas hardest hit by an ever changing climate. Ifraan Ali of Guyana, Gaston Browne of Antigua and Mia Mottley of Barbados all raised the climate change issue and its plethora of negative effects at meetings leading up to the start of sessions of the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York. PM Browne, who has been a leading advocate of punishment for those who pollute and walk away, wagged a finger at big oil, warning that victim nations are going to pursue polluters to the bitter end. “Big oil, hear this: your days of exploiting the global south’s natural resources are numbered. The rich industrialized nations must pay for the loss and damage that have devastated our communities”, he added. He contended that the global governa...