With the issue of climate change and its continually degrading effects on environmental, social and economic circumstances, particularly in poor countries, becoming an increasingly acrimonious item on the global climate agenda, Prime Minister of the tiny and climate vulnerable Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne, has seized the opportunity afforded by his country’s presidency of the decade’s Summit for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), on Monday, to blast “empty” and “grossly inadequate” climate pledges, saying wealthy nations have failed to meet obligations to limit damages from carbon emissions.