Se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and civ­il so­ci­ety lead­ers met in Gros-Islet, Saint Lu­cia, on March 2 and 3 for the Caribbean Con­ven­ing on a Glob­al Just Tran­si­tion from Fos­sil Fu­els.

The meet­ing ad­dressed re­gion­al co­or­di­na­tion ahead of the First In­ter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Tran­si­tion­ing Away from Fos­sil Fu­els, sched­uled for April 24 to 29 in San­ta Mar­ta. The con­fer­ence will be co-host­ed by Colom­bia and the Nether­lands and was an­nounced at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

Par­tic­i­pants dis­cussed gov­er­nance, fi­nance and im­ple­men­ta­tion is­sues linked to a glob­al phase-out of oil, gas and coal. The 2025 UN­EP Pro­duc­tion Gap Re­port projects gov­ern­ments will pro­duce 120 per cent more fos­sil fu­els by 2030 than is con­sis­tent with lim­it­ing warm­ing to 1.5°C.