BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, Tuesday said that climate change poses an acute threat to the Caribbean and that the costs for resilience building in the region is estimated at a staggering US$100 billion over the next two decades.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)  has launched a three million US dollar project to fast-track climate action in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - Grenada's government says that millions of dollars would be required to repair and or replaced public infrastructure damaged or demolished by the flooding caused by the excessive rainfall the country has been experiencing since November 8.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Tuesday urged Caribbean countries to work towards cooperating more so as to achieve energy transition in the region.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A three-day Caribbean High-Level Forum on managing the energy transition gets underway on Tuesday.

BAKU, Azerbaijan – The voices of the indigenous peoples of the Iwokrama Forest, one of the last pristine rainforests in the world, echoed through the hallways of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) here on Tuesday, more than 6,500 miles from their native Guyana.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Barbados has told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the island’s “serene” beauty stands to be obliterated, “if we do not cease forms of global conduct which will leave our island uninsurable, uninvestable and, ultimately, uninhabitable”.

BRUSSELS – The European Union (EU) Tuesday released more than five million Euros in humanitarian aid to support affected populations in the Caribbean and Central America in light of the particularly active and intense current hurricane season in the Atlantic.

BAKU, Azerbaijan – Caribbean development organizations say they continue to trail the world as it relates to accessing available climate funds and implementation of climate resilient projects.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says he hopes Cuba can provide at least 15 construction workers to help rebuild homes and other buildings damaged by Hurricane Beryl on July 1.

BAKU, Azerbaijan – The United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell, has described the new finance goal agreed at the  Conference of Parties (COP 29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as “an insurance policy for humanity”. But developing countries, including those in the Caribbean, had sought over one trillion dollars in assistance,  called the agreement an “insult” and argued it did not give them the vital resources they required to truly address the complexities of the climate crisis.

BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize government says it has embarked on a six-year Resilient Rural Belize (RRB) program aimed at minimizing the impacts of climatic and economic events on small farmers while supporting sustainable market access for their produce.