Grenada and other OECS Member States are said to be seeking to scale-up and accelerate climate action.
On this score, an informative report is being published pertaining to a recent meeting here in Grenada which was attended by officials in climate and environmental sectors.
One session dealt with the Green Climate Fund, under the project entitled, Improving Eastern Caribbean Engagement, looking at data gap assessment, a private sector engagement strategy, and a pilot project to support the integration of climate change into the curriculum of the Dominica State College.
The OECS Commission, with support from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under its Needs-Based Financing Programme, has developed, in consultation with Member States, a regional Needs-Based Finance Strategy, seeking to address major climate change challenges.
The second meeting saw the presentation of the Strategy to representatives of Member States and key development partners who, collectively, identified critical next steps as well as possible areas where the respective development partners could engage in implementation of the Strategy.
Grenada’s Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Climate Resilience, the Environment and Renewable Energy, Merinna Jessamy, reminded participants, and in her own words, “Our fiscal space cannot afford the price of climate change – we must find a way to bridge the divide and close the gap.” Unquote.
