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Haiti violence: Haiti gangs demand PM resign after mass jailbreak
2024-03-03 in The BBCA state of emergency is declared after armed gangs stormed a major prison, freeing thousands of inmates.
Tagged under: Collapse | Caribbean
‘Unprecedented mass coral bleaching’ expected in 2024, says expert
2023-12-07 in The Guardian2023 is first year of potential pair of El Niño years and since 1997, every instance of these pairs has led to mass coral mortality
Tagged under: Coral Reefs | Wildlife | COP28 | El Niño | Caribbean
Barbados PM fights for shake-up of global climate finance - BBC News
2023-06-22 (or before) in The BBCAt a climate summit in Paris, Barbados's prime minister wants to raise billions for poor nations.
Tagged under: Caribbean | Finance
Why rising sea levels pose existential threat to the Bahamas – extract
2023-05-22 in The GuardianIn her new book, Christina Gerhardt explains why the Caribbean island group faces such huge risks from climate breakdown
Tagged under: Sea Level | Caribbean
Credit Suisse Collapse Throws Climate Debt Market Into Turmoil - Bloomberg
2023-03-21 (or before) in BloombergThe failure of the Swiss bank leaves a hole in the debt-for-nature market that analysts said could one day exceed $800 billion.
Tagged under: Caribbean | Collapse | Finance
Climate Change…Equatorial Atlantic Ocean plankton productivity and Caribbean pollution….a think piece for debate
2022-07-18 (or before) in SSRN - Social Science Research NetworkWe’ve been encouraged to think that climate change is just caused by the excess anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide and methane, and that the impacts can b
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Methane | Caribbean | Climate Change Impacts
The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006) | Official Full Documentary
2022-07-10 (or before) in YouTubeWhen Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis – feeding the population – and an ongoing challenge: how to cre...
Tagged under: Caribbean
‘We can’t eat a new road’: Guyanese voice fears over true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza
2022-05-12 in The GuardianMultibillion-dollar deal promising to lift country out of poverty may be false dawn with dire impact on climate, warn campaigners
Tagged under: Exxon | Fossil Fuels | Caribbean
Mia Mottley: the 'fearless' leader pushing a global settlement for the climate frontlines
2021-11-18 in Climate Home NewsThe first female prime minister of Barbados is elevating wonky discussions on the future of global finance to the highest political level
Tagged under: Caribbean | Finance
Hurricane Iota hits Nicaragua threatening catastrophic damage
2020-11-17 in The GuardianStorm hits Caribbean coast less than two weeks after Hurricane Eta carved a swathe of destruction
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Caribbean
Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage – study
2020-06-12 in The GuardianExclusive: new figure far higher than previous estimates of direct impact of global heating
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Caribbean
Bittersweet nature of nitrogen calls for better management practices
2019-10-23 (or before) in UN Environment ProgrammeNearly 80 per cent of the air we breathe is nitrogen, a harmless inert gas. However, nitrogen also combines with other atoms to form chemical compounds—known as “reactive nitrogen” or “fixed nitrogen” (Nr)—that are essential for life on Earth but, at high concentrations, also hugely damaging to the environment.
Tagged under: Oceans | Africa | Caribbean | Climate Change Mitigation
Climate change 'cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises'
2019-02-21 in The GuardianReport says few headlines sparked by food crises that ravaged Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Climate Change | Africa | Famine and Food Insecurity | Caribbean | Madagascar
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