Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

Now wak­ing up in the Caribbean? Here's your morn­ing brief on COP28.

- UN­FC­CC Ex­ec­u­tive Sec­re­tary, Si­mon Stiell, says COP28 must "de­liv­er a bul­let train to speed up cli­mate ac­tion. We cur­rent­ly have an old ca­boose chug­ging over rick­ety tracks."

- On the Loss and Dam­age Fund, Stiell said we need en­hanced trans­paren­cy, and to de­liv­er our promise to fund cli­mate ac­tion across the world. "Loss and dam­age was a win, but we’re kid­ding our­selves if we think it’s a tick in the box for fi­nance and sup­port at this COP; more is re­quired," the Grena­di­an added.

- A new re­port is warn­ing the earth is on the verge of cross­ing five cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate tip­ping points as a re­sult of car­bon pol­lu­tions in the at­mos­phere, with three more in sight in the 2030s if the world heats more than 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-in­dus­tri­al lev­els.

- Eu­rope’s cli­mate mon­i­tor, the Coper­ni­cus Cli­mate Change Ser­vice (C3S) has an­nounced that No­vem­ber be­came the sixth record-break­ing month in a row for av­er­age tem­per­a­tures.