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Barbados has warned that mounting frustration and broken promises on climate finance are eroding trust among developing nations.
The warning comes from Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kerrie Symmonds, as the Government prepares for the COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference with guarded and cautious expectations.
He said the world’s most vulnerable countries are losing patience with wealthy nations’ failure to deliver on funding commitments, and that climate inaction is now a matter of life and death for the Caribbean.
COP30 is set for Belém, Brazil, from November 10th to 21st.
Minister Symmonds made his comments in a contribution to the latest quarterly edition of Diplomatic World, a magazine interlinking politics, diplomacy, business and finance, economic diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, and health.
Appearing alongside high-level voices from Saint Lucia and Cuba at the forefront of the climate crisis, the senior minister called for a more just and equitable international order, noting that Bridgetown was confronting two serious challenges going into COP30.
