Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

COP28 con­tin­ued on Sat­ur­day with world lead­ers tak­ing the podi­um of the ple­nary to de­liv­er their na­tion­al ad­dress­es. On the lo­cal front, there was ma­jor news com­ing out of Dubai.

- ANSA McAL CEO, Mr. An­tho­ny Sab­ga III flew in­to Dubai to sign an MOU with Ke­nes­jay Green Lim­it­ed which sets the stage for pri­vate sec­tor ac­cel­er­a­tion of green en­er­gy projects in the Caribbean. Mr. Sab­ga sig­nalled the con­glom­er­ate's in­ten­tion to lead the Caribbean re­gion in­to a green­er fu­ture.

- In some ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al de­vel­op­ments, the Unit­ed States has joined the Pow­er­ing Past Coal Al­liance by com­mit­ting to close all its coal-fired pow­er plants, in a move hailed at Cop28 as “huge news” that puts pres­sure on the world’s biggest burn­er of coal, Chi­na. Vice pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris al­so an­nounced a sig­nif­i­cant $3bn pledge to the Green Cli­mate Fund.

- The Unit­ed Na­tion's top doc­tor, Tedros Ad­hanom Ghe­breye­sus, has com­pared burn­ing fos­sil fu­els to smok­ing cig­a­rettes.