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UN disaster official reiterates urges developed…
Source: CMC The head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Mami Mizutori, says “even if lives are saved, disasters do crush livelihoods,”, as she visited some of the areas…
Seismologist not concerned by earthquake activity…
Source: Loop News About 25 quakes for 2023 so far, and citizens are urged to stay prepared Despite a 6.1 magnitude quake on January 20 and most recently a 5.1 earthquake today, both off of Guadeloupe,…
CDEMA’s Chairman wants the regional public to take…
Bridgetown, Barbados – Chairman of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Honourable Shawn Edward intends to raise the level of awareness about managing disasters and mitigating…
St. Lucia one more step closer to make west…
Source: TFI Global Saint Lucia has joined the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). The environmental body’s purpose is to demand climate justice for…
CARPII Project Launched in the OECS
OECS Media Release The Collectivité Territorial de Martinique hosted an international seminar on October 24– 26,2022, entitled, Resilience of Overseas Territories to Natural and Major Technological…
OECS United in the Fight Against Climate Change at…
OECS Media Release The United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP27, ended on November 20, 2022, with what has been called historic outcomes. The two-week conference, which…
Earthquake reported near Antigua and Barbuda
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake was recorded northeast of Antigua and Barbuda on 2022-11-25 at 09:48 am (Local Time) The UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI SRC) said it occurred around 9:48 am local time at…
OECS and PIRAC Host Joint Side Event at COP27
Joint Media Release | OECS and French Red Cross (FRC) The OECS and the French Red Cross (FRC) through its Regional Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean (PIRAC), hosted a side event at COP27 –…
COP27 delivers climate fund breakthrough at cost…
Source: IBT Countries closed this year's U.N. climate summit on Sunday with a hard-fought deal to create a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, even as many lamented its…
Fearless Fight for Climate Fairness
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of…
Fight over aid for climate losses divides UN talks
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AP): With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them faster than agreements are coming out of them, negotiators at the UN climate summit were in a difficult spot on Wednesday. Talks…
Government Minister in the OECS Makes Impassioned…
OECS Media Release Honourable Shawn Edwards, Minister for Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training in Saint Lucia made an impassioned plea on the…
COP27: Antigua’s PM asks ‘Why should…
Prime Minister Gaston Brown, of Antigua and Barbuda, has angrily rejected the idea his people should be forced to migrate, and warned that climate diplomacy is failing to act with anything like the…
COP27: UK Foreign Secretary pledges new support…
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is in Sharm el-Sheikh at COP27 to call for tangible action to deliver on the commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow and support developing economies to tackle the…
Why Taiwan’s Inclusion in The UNFCCC Is Important
H.E. Michael Chau-Horng Lin, Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis As the 27th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) under the United Nations…