Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Carla Barnett addressed disaster resilience financing and funding for the region’s climate, energy and transport transformation at the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP 31) in Türkiye. She is leading the CARICOM Secretariat’s delegation to the United Nations climate conference.
Barnett spoke at a ministerial dialogue hosted by the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility examining who pays when climate disasters strike. She also delivered remarks at a Caribbean Development Bank side event focused on moving from ambition to implementation in financing Caribbean climate, energy and transport transformation.
Her scheduled engagements include a United Nations event on delivering early warnings for all. She will also speak on Caribbean regional cooperation at the Climate Mobility Pavilion in a session organised by the United Nations Global Centre for Climate Mobility.