A Caribbean Climate Smart coalition has been created by nations and leaders of Caribbean nations.In it Richard Brandon of Virgin group is playing a big role.This $8 billion project will 3.2 million Caribbean families. This will also enable them for disaster recovery and preparedness.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>This creation was triggered by the devastation and slow recovery from the damage caused by hurricane Irma and Maria.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>The Caribbean Climate-Smart Coalition plans to work with global finance giants such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Caribbean Development Bank to mobilize $8 billion and bring new infrastructure and energy security to vulnerable regional communities.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>The primary focus of this coalition is to boost disaster relief and reconstruction after the hurricanes and help build resilience in the face of more frequent, more severe weather events that are likely to hit the region in the future.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>Like other similar regional partnerships in Africa and Asia Pacific, it will facilitate the circulation of financial aid and technology transfer. To do so, the alliance will focus on a set of key priorities.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>First among those is the scaling of renewable energy systems and reduction of the communities’ dependence on fossil fuels. This will prevent people from being left in the dark if the central energy distribution system breaks down, as often happens during severe storms.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>Other priorities include building low-carbon infrastructure designed to withstand storms and exploring creative financing models that reward progress on policy reforms and sustainable growth pathways.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>Ultimately, Branson hopes the Coalition’s work will inspire other regions of the world to transition to clean energy and resilient infrastructure. “The Caribbean can truly be a model of accelerating new technologies and approaches to create a smart climate zone that can be replicated around the world,” he wrote in his statement.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>As we’ve seen this year in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and Houston, Texas, hurricanes are becoming more frequent and powerful in the wake of climate change, and their evolution requires that the way we cope with these natural disasters evolve as well. Embracing clean energy is a vital part of that.
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A Caribbean Climate Smart coalition has been created by nations and leaders of Caribbean nations.In it Richard Brandon of Virgin group is playing a big role.This $8 billion project will 3.2 million Caribbean families. This will also enable them for disaster recovery and preparedness.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>The announcement of this creation was done at One Planet summit in Paris.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>This creation was triggered by the devastation and slow recovery from the damage caused by hurricane Irma and Maria.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>Most of the Caribbean countries are facing acute shortage of energy and funds to rebuild the houses, infrastructure and economy .The disaster management and recovery capacity is needed to be.
Objectives
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>The Caribbean Climate-Smart Coalition plans to work with global finance giants such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Caribbean Development Bank to mobilize $8 billion and bring new infrastructure and energy security to vulnerable regional communities.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>The primary focus of this coalition is to boost disaster relief and reconstruction after the hurricanes and help build resilience in the face of more frequent, more severe weather events that are likely to hit the region in the future.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>Like other similar regional partnerships in Africa and Asia Pacific, it will facilitate the circulation of financial aid and technology transfer. To do so, the alliance will focus on a set of key priorities.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>First among those is the scaling of renewable energy systems and reduction of the communities’ dependence on fossil fuels. This will prevent people from being left in the dark if the central energy distribution system breaks down, as often happens during severe storms.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>Other priorities include building low-carbon infrastructure designed to withstand storms and exploring creative financing models that reward progress on policy reforms and sustainable growth pathways.
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p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>Ultimately, Branson hopes the Coalition’s work will inspire other regions of the world to transition to clean energy and resilient infrastructure. “The Caribbean can truly be a model of accelerating new technologies and approaches to create a smart climate zone that can be replicated around the world,” he wrote in his statement.
<
p style=margin: 0px 0px 25px; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;>As we’ve seen this year in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and Houston, Texas, hurricanes are becoming more frequent and powerful in the wake of climate change, and their evolution requires that the way we cope with these natural disasters evolve as well. Embracing clean energy is a vital part of that.
