The Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre (CC­C­CC) says the first UN­FC­CC Cli­mate Week of 2025, which was held from May 19–23 in Pana­ma City, marked "a piv­otal step in glob­al cli­mate ac­tion" aim­ing to bridge pol­i­cy de­ci­sions with tan­gi­ble, on the ground im­ple­men­ta­tion.

The CC­C­CC's del­e­ga­tion en­gaged in high-lev­el di­a­logues, ca­pac­i­ty-build­ing ses­sions, and col­lab­o­ra­tive fo­rums fo­cused on im­ple­mentable and in­vestable ND­Cs.

The key en­gage­ments fo­cused on trans­lat­ing cli­mate poli­cies in­to ac­tion­able strate­gies, em­pha­sis­ing the unique chal­lenges and so­lu­tions per­ti­nent to Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS).

The NDC Clin­ic fo­cused on en­hanc­ing Na­tion­al­ly De­ter­mined Con­tri­bu­tions (ND­Cs). The CC­C­CC says it shared in­sights in­to re­gion­al ap­proach­es to achiev­ing am­bi­tious cli­mate tar­gets and high­light­ed the Caribbean's rich bio­di­ver­si­ty while pro­mot­ing na­ture-based so­lu­tions, in­te­grat­ing ecosys­tem ser­vices in­to cli­mate plan­ning for in­vest­ment and en­gag­ing the pri­vate sec­tor.

Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor of the UN­FC­CC, Si­mon Stiell, high­light­ed that each coun­try's na­tion­al­ly de­ter­mined con­tri­bu­tion will serve as the

eco­nom­ic blue­print for pros­per­i­ty. Through the Im­ple­men­ta­tion Fo­rum, he called on the Coun­try Par­ties to sup­port each oth­er in un­lock­ing progress across three pil­lars: fi­nance, tech­nol­o­gy, and car­bon mar­kets.

Dr. Col­in Young, Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor of the CC­C­CC, stat­ed, "Our par­tic­i­pa­tion in this in­au­gur­al Cli­mate Week of 2025 un­der­scores the CC­C­CC’s con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to am­pli­fy the voic­es of our mem­ber states, share best prac­tices, and forge part­ner­ships that will dri­ve trans­for­ma­tive change across our re­gion.

Now more than ever be­fore, Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States need the means of im­ple­men­ta­tion to turn ND­Cs from as­pi­ra­tional goals in­to cli­mate-re­silient ac­tions that will save lives and liveli­hoods of our peo­ple and al­low our peo­ple to re­al­ize our full po­ten­tial. This Cli­mate Weeks al­lows to com­mu­ni­cate the fierce ur­gency of now, fol­lowed by con­crete ac­tions on the ground."

The UN­FC­CC Cli­mate Week is a strate­gic plat­form to align in­ter­gov­ern­men­tal process­es with on the-ground im­ple­men­ta­tion, fos­ter­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion among Par­ties, non-Par­ty stake­hold­ers, and var­i­ous sec­tors.