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10/3/2019

Barbados Prime Minister,  The Honorable Mia Mottley  Advocates on Behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) at the UN Climate Action Summit

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Three (3) consecutive   weeks of discussion via the GOFAD Blogs followed the Devastation in The Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian. They  triggered perspectives on achieving climate resilience through innovative approaches, regional partnerships and global solidarity. It has been  suggested that for the Caribbean, building blocks are in place through strategic plans and programmes led by CARICOM institutions like Caribbean Community  Climate Change Centre (5cs), the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the University of the West Indies (UWI). There are illustrations  too, of the leadership roles of the Caribbean in shaping global policy such as the Paris Agreement (2016) and most recently, the Report of the Global Commission on Adaptation (September 2019).  

This week , we present,  especially for those who have not seen/heard it,  Barbados Prime Minister The Hon Mia Mottley's constructively  passionate advocacy on behalf of the 44 member Alliance of Small Island Development States (AOSIS)  at the UN Climate Action Summit. Prime Minister Mottley was emphatic about the important voice of the AOSIS which comprises 20 percent of the membership of the UN.  The question is: does the case presented for AOSIS override the proposal for a Pan Caribbean Climate Action Partnership? Your ideas are appreciated. 

United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit - Prime Minister Mia Mottley's Remarks https://youtu.be/Y0aUaXWGnsg via 
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Eddie Greene 

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Nigel Hughes
10/3/2019 09:48:36 am

Mia was outstanding as always.

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Edward Greene
10/7/2019 05:25:30 am

The following is an excerpt from a comment from Mervyn Claxton which I found to be interesting
Caricom member states are surrounded by a sea of green. ("A World Map of Organic Agriculture(2011). The world map shows that Latin America is the greenest region in the world, by far. Caricom has apparently developed a supernaturally strong resistance to infection by the Green Revolution. Such superhuman resistance merits explanation. Why has no Caricom economist, agronomist, agricultural scientist, environmentalist, nutritionist, climate change scientist (given the link between climate change and food security), or civil society actor shown the slightest curiosity about such an extraordinary phenomenon?
. Take a look at Appendix Table 1(pp.366-369) of the document. The data on organic cultivation in a number of Caricom countries is eye-opening, especially when compared to their Latin American neighbours:

Antigua & Barbuda0 (zero) hectaresunder organic cultivation
Bahamas0 (zero) hectaresunder organic cultivation
Barbados0 (zero) hectaresunder organic cultivation
Belize1177 hectaresunder organic cultivation
Dominica0 (zero) hectaresunder organic cultivation
Saint Kitts & Nevis0 (zero) hectaresunder organic cultivation
Grenada40 hectaresunder organic cultivation
Guyana54 hectares under organic cultivation
Jamaica542 hectaresunder organic cultivation
Saint Lucia0 (zero) hectaresunder organic cultivation
St Vincent & The Grenadines0 (zero) hectaresunder organic cultivation
Trinidad & Tobago0 (zero) hectaresunder organic cultivation

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Fitzgerald John Yaw link
10/8/2019 07:44:18 am

Eddie thanks for your note. Indeed we need to do more to encourage organic agriculture in the Caribbean. There has been some improvement since the numbers that Mervyn used. Also while he was Vice Chancellor at The University of Guyana (UG) 2016 -2019 Ivelaw led in getting a feasibility study conducted, including stakeholder outreach, for an Institute for Food and Nutrition Security to be established at UG which would have had as one of its objectives encouragement of organic agriculture. Hopefully the work done would be built on by The UG. RE PM Mottley’s speech what I thought was real important was her call for no new coal powered electricity plants after 2020 and the goal of having Barbados fossil fuel free for energy by 2030.

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