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Multilateral Development Banks Should Work Collaboratively to Help Countries Meet Climate Finance Targets

January 3, 2024

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) should strengthen their collaboration to find common solutions that help countries meet their climate finance targets. Speaking during the “Innovative approaches to accelerating climate finance flows into the Caribbean” at the 28th Annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Vice-President of […]

FROM ISLAND SHORES TO GLOBAL FORUMS: HONOURABLE KERRYNE JAMES LEADS GRENADA’S DELEGATION AT COP 28 IN DUBAI

December 5, 2023

St. George’s: The Honourable Kerryne James, Minister for Climate Resilience, The Environment & Renewable Energy, leads Grenada’s delegation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), COP 28 in Dubai, Expo City. World leaders and climate change activists will convene in Dubai from November 30-December 12, 2023, to engage in discussions, collaborate on […]

REPUBLIC BANK TAKES DECISIVE ACTION TO REDUCE ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT

August 2, 2023

St. George’s, Grenada: Republic Bank (Grenada) Limited has taken bold, decisive action to reduce its carbon footprint, specifically “greenhouse gases” generated by electricity made from fossil fuels. The Bank officially turned “off” the switch which previously generated electricity from natural gas for over 27 years at its corporate headquarters on Maurice Bishop Highway in […]

COP28 President-Designate concludes high level visit to China with common understanding for step change to help achieve transformational climate progress at COP28

April 19, 2023

COP28 President-Designate, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, concluded a two-day trip to China, where he held a series of bilateral meetings, including with Ding Xuexiang, First Vice Premier of China; Zhao Chenxin, Vice Chairman of the NDRC; HE Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment; Xie Zhenhua, Special Envoy for Climate Change; and Dr. Zhang Jianhua, Director […]

Eastern Caribbean Secures US$27 Million from the World Bank to Improve Data-Driven Decision Making

May 18, 2022

Project aims to strengthen statistical systems and data production to better inform policymaking in the region – including gender and climate change WASHINGTON, May 17, 2022—The World Bank Group (WBG) approved today financing of US$22 million to Eastern Caribbean countries— Grenada (US$8 million), Saint Lucia (US$8 million), and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (US$6 million)—as […]

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Opinion: Coronavirus and Climate Disasters – Small Vulnerable Countries Face Dual Threats

April 18, 2020

By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General The widespread destruction wreaked by Tropical Cyclone Harold in several Pacific countries just days ago has been nothing short of heart-breaking. At least 32 people have died, while more than 45,000 men, women and children in Vanuatu’s hardest-hit province, Sanma, are now homeless. In Tonga, hundreds of businesses and homes were […]

Building Climate Resilience is Crucial for Halting the Rise in Hunger

September 11, 2018

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and UN partner agencies (IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO) have just published the 2018 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World. For the third year in a row, there has been a rise in world hunger. The absolute number of undernourished people […]

Caribbean Needs “Urgent Access” to Finance to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals-PM Mitchell

November 17, 2017

Chairman of the World’s Small Island Developing states, Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr.Keith Mitchell, is insisting that Caribbean countries need “urgent access to financing” if they are to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Prime Minister Mitchell has also echoed concerns that the process for Caribbean countries to get resources such as the Green Climate Fund can be […]

Jamaican Company Presents on Island Vulnerability at Global Climate Impacts Conference in Germany

November 16, 2017

Kingston, Jamaica. November 16, 2017. Jamaican based development communications entity, CHANGE Communications Limited, was recently selected by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research to present at its Impacts World Conference in Germany. CHANGE Communications Limited which was represented by Managing Director, Indi Mclymont-Lafayette and Creative Director, Ava-Gail Gardiner, presided over a workshop session on […]

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