Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

Cli­mate An­a­lyt­ics Caribbean is set to pre­miere a new doc­u­men­tary ti­tled; Is­land Ac­tion, Glob­al Goals: Can the Glob­al Stock­take change the Caribbean’s cli­mate fu­ture?”

The doc­u­men­tary show­cas­es how Caribbean is­lands are tak­ing es­sen­tial ac­tion in the face of wors­en­ing cli­mate change, against the back­drop of the first Glob­al Stock­take.

The film will be screened for the first time on Wednes­day at Queen’s Hall, as part of the Green Screen En­vi­ron­men­tal Film Fes­ti­val Schools Screen­ings and Green Ca­reer Talks.

The sem­i­nal Glob­al Stock­take, which com­plet­ed its first cy­cle this past De­cem­ber at the Unit­ed Na­tions cli­mate change ne­go­ti­a­tions, COP28 iden­ti­fied crit­i­cal gaps in glob­al cli­mate ac­tion and the sup­port that is so crit­i­cal­ly need­ed by those most vul­ner­a­ble to cli­mate im­pacts. The fi­nal agree­ment set out a suite of ac­tions to be tak­en by coun­tries and reaf­firmed com­mit­ments to close these gaps.

In “Is­land Ac­tion, Glob­al Goals”, sev­er­al groups in Trinidad and To­ba­go, St. Lu­cia, and Do­mini­ca were fea­tured, re­veal­ing a host of tena­cious in­di­vid­u­als cre­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for their com­mu­ni­ties to adapt to cli­mate change and im­prove their ways of life. In­no­v­a­tive projects and ac­tiv­i­ties take cen­ter stage, bring­ing to life the sci­ence be­hind cli­mate change and show­ing how Caribbean lead­er­ship ex­ists at all lev­els in the fight to en­sure the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty lim­its warm­ing to a 1.5°C in­crease above pre-in­dus­tri­al lev­els.

In Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Bras­so Seco com­mu­ni­ty is pro­filed for its ef­forts to safe­guard agro­tourism, and the Na­tion­al Trust of Trinidad and To­ba­go shared on its Keep­ing His­to­ry Above Wa­ter project to pro­tect her­itage sites from cli­mate change im­pacts such as sea lev­el rise.

Ruean­na Haynes, Di­rec­tor of Cli­mate An­a­lyt­ics Caribbean, al­so played a key role ad­vis­ing is­land ne­go­tia­tors at COP28 on the Glob­al Stock­take. She said, “The Glob­al Stock­take de­ci­sion at COP28 is so sig­nif­i­cant to the Caribbean, as it reaf­firms glob­al sol­i­dar­i­ty with the plight of small is­land de­vel­op­ing states for us to stay with­in the 1.5°C warm­ing lim­it,” she said. “This com­mit­ment to re­vis­it na­tion­al­ly de­ter­mined con­tri­bu­tions and ramp up cli­mate ac­tion is ab­solute­ly need­ed if we are to pro­tect our is­lands from the worst im­pacts of cli­mate change. Re­gion­al­ly, we will ad­vance our ef­forts know­ing that our win­dow of hope for a bet­ter fu­ture has widened.”