Even as the Caribbean contemplates its prospects for economic growth in 2024 and beyond, it cannot afford to lose sight of its particular responsibility to ensure that it continues to monitor and, as far as possible, mitigate the ever present threat of climate change and its potential to seriously retard the region’s growth and development, going forward. With this in mind, regional state officials and representatives of non-state organizations in the region, met in Jamaica on Wednesday February 21, to ‘sign off’ on a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing the further consolidation of a partnership designed to deepen the existing trust within the framework of the common threat which climate change poses to countries in the Caribbean.
The assembled group of officials, drawn from the Development Bank of Jamaica, (DBJ) and the Caribbean Com-munity Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) met for the purpose of further formalizing the existing partnership in the hope that acting together will result in a more formidable force. The rededication to the pre-existing partnership is a reflection of the continual awareness on the parts of critical regional organizations of the existential threat which climate change poses to the Caribbean as a whole and of the need for countries and critical non-governmental organizations to continue to reflect that awareness and to demonstrate their preparedness to effect interventions to mitigate that threat.