Now wak­ing up in the Caribbean? Here’s what you missed at COP28 in Dubai as the Unit­ed Na­tions Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence turns to­wards the fin­ish line.

– Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment, Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, sits down with CNC3 for a one-on-one on T&T’s en­er­gy tran­si­tion and the ef­fects cli­mate change is hav­ing on the twin-is­land.

– UN­FC­CC Ex­ec­u­tive Sec­re­tary, Si­mon Stiell has called out “tac­ti­cal block­ades” and “strate­gic land­mines” as the talks en­ter their fi­nal phase. “We do not have a mo­ment to lose in this cru­cial home stretch.”

– The head of the Unit­ed Na­tions, An­tónio Guter­res, has called on world lead­ers to “end the fos­sil fu­el age” as he re­turns to Cop28 for the fi­nal days of the sum­mit.