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2011-07-20
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2011-07-20
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  1. “For the Caribbean Community and other island States, the failure of the international community to respond to climate change and thereby ensure our survival and viability is not an option we would wish to contemplate.”

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  2. “The effective implementation of these two international agreements, support for national and regional initiatives such as the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, along with the action taken within the UNFCCC, will significantly assist the SIDS in coping with the adverse effects of climate change and help to minimize the security implications associated with climate change. In closing, let me say that it is these real and tangible actions that will reduce the risks of climate change. Given the many expressions of solidarity today, CARICOM. is hopeful that this debate will result in a renewed sense of urgency and ambition within the ongoing climate change negotiations.”

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  3. “Developed countries must take the lead in significantly reducing their harmful greenhouse gas emissions and substantially increasing financial and technological assistance to support the adaptation efforts of developing countries, especially the SIDS. CARICOM. remains convinced that the international community must attach the highest priority to completing ongoing climate change negotiations within the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol on strengthening the existing legally binding climate regime. CARICOM. wishes to further emphasize the need for our development partners to join with us and other SIDS to ensure the full and rapid implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action and the Mauritius Strategy, of which the issues of climate change and sea-level rise are important components.”

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  4. “We consider it morally and ethically unacceptable for the international community to fail to respond to the needs of peoples facing the prospect of hunger, drought, more frequent and intense extreme weather events or the real prospect of losing their lands, livelihoods and even lives on account of sea- level rise, when we have the means and tools at our disposal to address these problems. It is still scientifically possible and economically feasible to undertake the actions required to avert this looming climate catastrophe. Even now, no effort, financial or otherwise, is being spared to avert a global financial meltdown. A similar effort is required to avert a climate catastrophe. In this regard, those who have historically contributed most to this problem have a moral and legal obligation to assume primary responsibility.”

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  5. “Furthermore, global emissions are at their highest level in history, and as the International Energy Agency confirmed a few weeks ago, the world is about to cross the dangerous threshold that would make it impossible to limit the increase in global mean temperatures to the below 2° C goal agreed to in Cancun in the UNFCCC a mere six months ago, or achieve the even more ambitious below 1.5" goal supported by over 100 developing countries, including the Alliance of Small Island States and the least developed countries. CARICOM. continues to believe that with strong leadership, a bold and ambitious response is possible, and we are therefore not prepared to wave the white flag of surrender and abandon hope that this problem will be solved.”

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  6. “Unfortunately, the response by the international community has not been commensurate with the scale and complexity of this challenge. Despite the sobering realities confronting us, there is an absence of political will on the part of those most responsible for this problem to conclude a comprehensive and legally binding agreement in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and provide vulnerable developing countries with the means to address current and future adaptation needs.”

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  7. “When the Council last addressed this issue in 2007, it was in the context of the alarming findings of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which warned that we were on the cusp of a global climate disaster without an urgent and ambitious collective response. Over the past four years, science and actual climatic events have not only confirmed these assessments, but have pointed to an even narrower window of opportunity for action than originally envisaged in 2007. The increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events around the world, including in the Caribbean, accelerating ice melting in polar regions and glacier retreats, and a faster-than- projected sea-level rise, all point to the seriousness of the climate challenge.”

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  8. “maintains that it is far better for the Council to construe its mandate strictly and do a small number of things well rather than be more expansive and do a host of tasks poorly. As a group of countries particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, CARICOM believes that if urgent and ambitious actions are taken to comprehensively address climate change, this will reduce the security implications associated with climate change, including the existential threat faced by some small island developing States (SIDS), including some in the Caribbean and Pacific.”

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  9. “Climate change will intensify already existing global challenges, exacerbate water and food scarcity, and cause a range of other shocks and stresses, some of which will be highly unpredictable and abrupt. CARICOM. believes that the environmental, social and economic aspects of climate change cannot be easily separated from its possible security dimensions. We therefore believe that the possible security implications of climate change must be addressed at the multilateral level by bodies which are inclusive, representative and transparent and that allow for the full and effective participation of all Member States. Let me reiterate CARICOM's view that the Security Council should refrain from encroaching on the functions and powers that the Charter and tradition have placed within the purview of the General Assembly. CARICOM.”

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  10. “At the outset, let me join those who spoke before me in thanking you, Mr. President, and Germany for having convened this very important meeting. I have the honour to speak on behalf of the 14 member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). CARICOM. wishes to associate itself with the statements made on behalf of the Group of 77 and China and the Non-Aligned Movement. CARICOM. welcomes the presence of His Excellency Mr. Marcus Stephen, President of the Republic of Nauru, at today's debate. Climate change represents the most serious global environmental and development challenge facing humanity. Dangerous climate change is already occurring, and therefore an urgent and comprehensive response by all countries must be of the highest priority.”

    2011-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6587Resumption1 (2011) · source