FILE - Designated UN conference president Sultan al-Jaber attends the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, Thursday, June 8, 2023. The head of this year’s United Nations’ climate talks called Thursday, July 13, 2023, for governments and businesses to tackle global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in all regions and sectors if they want to stop the planet from passing a key temperature limit agreed more than seven years ago. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
FILE - Designated UN conference president Sultan al-Jaber attends the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, Thursday, June 8, 2023. The head of this year’s United Nations’ climate talks called Thursday, July 13, 2023, for governments and businesses to tackle global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in all regions and sectors if they want to stop the planet from passing a key temperature limit agreed more than seven years ago. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
mmSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The head of this year’s U.N. global climate summit urged more availability of funds to fight climate change in the Caribbean during a regional meeting Thursday in Barbados.
Sultan al-Jaber, , noted that high costs have prevented island nations from quickly adopting renewable energy as they face what he said was some of the world’s harshest climate impacts.
“The peoples of the Caribbean have been on the front lines of climate change for longer than most,†he said. “Your experience represents an early warning system for the rest of the world.â€
Al-Jaber spoke to leaders from a 15-member trade bloc known as Caricom during an event broadcast online, saying that closing the climate finance gap is a priority ahead of the COP28 summit in Dubai in December.
Al-Jaber spoke the same day that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration increased its prediction for the Atlantic hurricane season from near-normal to above-normal given record sea surface temperatures. Some 14 to 21 named storms are now expected, with two to five major hurricanes.
Five tropical storms already have formed this year, marking an unusually busy start to the season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
“This region knows only too well the human and economic costs of too little finance for climate adaptation and resilience,†al-Jaber said of the Caribbean.
He credited Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley for creating a plan known as the , which would make it easier for developing nations to fight and postpone debt payments when disasters occur.
Supporters have said .
On Wednesday, Mottley announced that her administration would create a legacy fund to help Barbados fight climate change.
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