Climate

Bridgetown, Barbados, March 20, 2023 – The Regional Training Centre (RTC) of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) is currently facilitating its Strategic Leadership Programme for…

WASHINGTON (AP): After three nasty years, the La Niña weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

On an ordinary day, you get in, start your vehicle, turn on your favourite radio station, and drive to work. While bopping your head and humming to a catchy tune, you hear “We interrupt this segment…

Rising seas pose “unthinkable” risks to billions around the world, with profound implications for security, international law, human rights and the very fabric of societies, senior officials told the…

Support “turbocharged” efforts to get back on track to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN chief told the General Assembly on Monday. “Today, we are here to start the job of moving the…

Source: CMC The head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Mami Mizutori, says “even if lives are saved, disasters do crush livelihoods,”, as she visited some of the areas…

Source: Loop News About 25 quakes for 2023 so far, and citizens are urged to stay prepared Despite a 6.1 magnitude quake on January 20 and most recently a 5.1 earthquake today, both off of Guadeloupe,…

Bridgetown, Barbados – Chairman of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Honourable Shawn Edward intends to raise the level of awareness about managing disasters and mitigating…

Source: TFI Global Saint Lucia has joined the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). The environmental body’s purpose is to demand climate justice for…

OECS Media Release The Collectivité Territorial de Martinique hosted an international seminar on October 24– 26,2022, entitled, Resilience of Overseas Territories to Natural and Major Technological…

OECS Media Release The United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP27, ended on November 20, 2022, with what has been called historic outcomes. The two-week conference, which…

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake was recorded northeast of Antigua and Barbuda  on 2022-11-25 at 09:48 am (Local Time) The UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI SRC) said it occurred around 9:48 am local time at…

Joint Media Release | OECS and French Red Cross (FRC) The OECS and the French Red Cross (FRC) through its Regional Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean (PIRAC), hosted a side event at COP27 –…

Source: IBT Countries closed this year's U.N. climate summit on Sunday with a hard-fought deal to create a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, even as many lamented its…

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of…