“Of all of the vulnerabilities facing our countries today, none poses a more direct threat to our very existence than that of climate change.”
This was the opening charge delivered by Head of State Donald Ramotar, as the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM), Heads of Government Meeting got underway today in St Lucia.
Ramotar was delivering his first address to the Heads, in his capacity as Executive President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
Ramotar told those gathered that the “international negotiations are going much too slow, while emissions are on an unacceptably high trajectory and finance for adaptation and mitigation woefully inadequate.”
The Guyanese Head of State admonished the regional leaders to continue to leverage its extreme exposure to climate change in forging and advocating a common position on the matter.
“As countries in Europe struggle to find solutions to their economic and financial crises, it is appropriate that we will be discussing the status of our own Regional economy,” he remarked.
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