Ryan Ba­choo

Scores of in­di­vid­u­als from eight Caribbean coun­tries came to­geth­er over the week­end for an ini­tia­tive called 'I love the Caribbean', cre­at­ing a uni­fied call for ur­gent cli­mate ac­tion.

Or­ga­nized by the Caribbean Cli­mate Net­work in col­lab­o­ra­tion with part­ner or­gan­i­sa­tions through­out the re­gion, the events aimed to high­light the things and places loved by Caribbean peo­ple, am­pli­fy the voic­es of those di­rect­ly im­pact­ed by cli­mate change and ad­vo­cate for im­me­di­ate mea­sures to safe­guard our plan­et's fu­ture.

"The Caribbean is such an amaz­ing re­gion and it is un­fair that we are al­ready ex­pe­ri­enc­ing so many of the ef­fects of the cli­mate cri­sis with­out hav­ing con­tributed to the prob­lem as much as oth­er re­gions of the world," said Ami­ra Odeh from Puer­to Ri­co, spokesper­son of the Caribbean Cli­mate Net­work.

She added, "The beau­ti­ful things we have are part of our cul­ture and per­son­al­i­ties and we want to make sure that we don’t lose them in the fu­ture, we are call­ing for cli­mate mea­sures to be tak­en now, not when it might al­ready be too late."