Caribbean
Hurricane Melissa Shows Why Everyday Caribbean Workers Need Financial Protection
By: Chalsey Gill Anthony, Environmental Communicator, on behalf of Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) When Hurricane Melissa ripped across the Caribbean just a few days ago, it damaged roads and power lines and disrupted the way thousands of people earn a living. In Jamaica, entire sections of St. Elizabeth, the country’s “breadbasket”, were flooded, threatening […]
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Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 5, inches toward Jamaica
By Marco Lopez Hurricane Melissa grew from a tropical storm to a powerful Category 5 hurricane over the weekend. The country has been experiencing impacts from the outer bands since Sunday night. Hurricane Melissa continues its path toward Jamaica, moving slowly west at about 6 km/h (3 mph). It is expected to make landfall on […]
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Lack of early warnings exacerbates impact of central Mexico floods
By Climate Spotlight As of Wednesday, at least 66 fatalities and 75 missing persons are reported linked to the floods that inundated central and eastern Mexico last week. Almost 200 communities in the Hidalgo central mountainous region remain isolated. A week after the floods, the stench of uncollected decaying bodies begins to fill the air […]
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Caribbean Nations Need Funding to Recover After Disasters, But Where Is It?!
By: Chalsey Gill Anthony, Environmental Communicator, on behalf of Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) Whitney MĂ©linard still remembers the moment Hurricane Maria’s winds tore through Dominica in 2017. As lightning flashed outside her window, she realized the neighboring house had completely vanished. “I questioned, was the house there? Was it further behind? There was not […]
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When the Storm Passes, the Debt Remains – The Caribbean’s Struggle to Rebuild!
By: Chalsey Gill Anthony, Environmental Communicator, on behalf of Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) The roof was collapsing. Water poured in from every direction. As Hurricane Beryl’s 150 mph winds tore through Carriacou, Kisha McFarlene huddled with others in a building that was coming apart around them. “I became a pastor during Beryl,” she recalls, […]
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NOAA: July 2023 hottest on record
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2023 Global Climate assessment also ranked July as one of the wettest months in its history. by Marco Lopez Record-breaking global temperature has been intermittently reported by traditional media over the years. In many ways, we haven’t truly experienced what scientists have observed on the ground. Understanding the jargon […]
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Protecting Earth’s Lungs
by Climate Spotlight Staff RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. August 15, 2023 The Brazil National Institute of Space Research detected a 33.6% drop in deforestation in the Amazon during the first six months of President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva’s term. In July, the federal agency reported that the satellite data was gathered from a system […]
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One woman’s mission to protect Caye Caulker’s mangroves
This story was written by Marco Lopez, a Belizean multimedia journalist. It was published with the generous support of the Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Fellowship, a joint venture between Climate Tracker and Open Society Foundations. On the Belizean island of Caye Caulker, Allison Ifield is affectionately called “Mangrove Mama” due to her connection with mangroves and unrelenting […]
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World Environment Day 2023: Addressing the Urgent Challenge of Plastic Pollution
As we commemorate World Environment Day, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) warns that by 2050, the amount of plastic in the ocean could surpass the quantity of fish. This year’s theme, “Finding Solutions to Plastic Pollution,” highlights the pressing need to tackle this issue. Plastic pollution is not only a major contributor to greenhouse […]
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What is Climate Justice?
Undoubtedly, the industrialization of the Global North is directly responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) contributing to climate change today. Over the past two centuries, those countries created and mastered systems that still continue to control the world. Those systems have not only perpetuated the historical dehumanization of millions of people but […]
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Transitional Committee Conducts Inaugural Meeting for Loss and Damage Fund
Key procedural milestones were set out by the Transitional Committee established to operationalize the Loss and Damage Fund (L&D Fund) in its first meeting held in Luxor, Egypt from March 27 – 29, 2023. The body concluded its first engagement with the adoption of a work plan leading up to COP28, outlining the steps to […]
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COP28 president-designate says the world needs “course correction”
by Climate Spotlight Staff “The world is playing catch-up in keeping global temperatures below 1.5 degrees,” Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, COP28 president-designate, told participants at the World Government Summit, held in Dubai in February 2023. His home country, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will host this year’s upcoming climate change conference. The UAE has the […]
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