UN 2024 SIDS Conference: What Are the Results?

Excerpt from ClimaTalk:

Mia Mottley addressed the crowd assembled in the courtyard under the tropical Antiguan sun, “If we take longer than 18 months to settle the financing deal, the new financing deal, then we compromise our ability to do and use the financing properly to execute the projects, to sustain our civilizations, to stop the level of climate migration, to stop the level of societal erosion, and to be able to play our part to maintain who we are as a people.” 

The Barbadian Prime Minister’s planned side-event at the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) had drawn more attendees than the room could handle, forcing them to shift the session outside. Delegates from the world’s islands milled around the campus of the American University of Antigua, walking around the crowd of over a hundred people surrounding Prime Minister Mottley and her counterparts from St Vincent & the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, Cabo Verde, Jose Ulisses Correia e Silva, and the Marshall Islands, Dr Hilda Heine.

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