CCCCC strengthens Caribbean loss and damage response

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has been approved for membership in the Santiago Network, which recognises the CCCCC’s demonstrated capacity to deliver coordinated, high-quality technical assistance to CARICOM Member States to avert, minimise, and address loss and damage arising from the adverse impacts of climate change.

The Santiago Network, established in December 2019 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aims to catalyse technical assistance for developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Membership in the Network strengthens coordination among organisations, bodies, networks, and experts (OBNEs), enabling more effective support to countries in preventing, reducing, and responding to loss and damage.

The membership of the CCCCC as one of the few regional OBNEs in the Santiago Network underscores the entity’s long-standing role in shaping global responses to loss and damage, particularly for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This partnership with the Santiago Network, as an OBNE, will strengthen the CCCCC to more effectively channel resources, regional expertise, and capacity to assist Member States, while highlighting context-specific solutions and best practices from the Caribbean.

“The CCCCC’s membership in the Santiago Network is recognition that it possesses the capacity and know-how to effectively serve as a delivery partner to provide technical assistance to our Member States in their pursuit to avert, minimise, and address loss and damage caused by anthropogenic climate change,” said Colin Young, PhD, Executive Director of the CCCCC. “With the increasing frequency and intensity of climate-related shocks, which invariably increase loss and damage, the CCCCC membership in the Santiago Network will enhance CCCCC’s capacity to provide timely technical assistance requested by Member States.”

The CCCCC continues to advance on its mandate to support CARICOM member states in strengthening climate resilience, improving access to climate finance, and deepening regional capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change and loss and damage. At the same time, the CCCCC continues its advocacy role to shape and influence global climate policy processes, including those related to loss and damage, to ensure that Caribbean priorities, perspectives, and lived realities are meaningfully reflected in international agreements. (CCCCC Press Release)

About the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre is an intergovernmental organisation established by the Heads of Governments of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to coordinate the Region’s response to managing and adapting to climate change. The CCCCC also serves as a delivery partner for climate finance for the region, a repository for regional climate change information and a data provider of climate change-related policy advice and guidelines to the CARICOM Member States.

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