More than US$17.5 bil­lion in na­tion­al and re­gion­al cli­mate in­vest­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties have been iden­ti­fied across the Caribbean fol­low­ing the 2026 Cli­mate Smart Sum­mit, with or­gan­is­ers now launch­ing an 18-month ini­tia­tive aimed at turn­ing those pro­pos­als in­to tan­gi­ble projects.

The Caribbean Cli­mate-Smart Ac­cel­er­a­tor (CC­SA) has re­leased its of­fi­cial 2026 Cli­mate Smart Sum­mit Re­port, out­lin­ing the out­comes of the June meet­ing in Bar­ba­dos and de­tail­ing plans to track part­ner­ships, fi­nanc­ing com­mit­ments and project im­ple­men­ta­tion over the next year and a half.

The two-day sum­mit brought to­geth­er en­tre­pre­neurs, gov­ern­ments, in­vestors, de­vel­op­ment fi­nance in­sti­tu­tions, phil­an­thropies, busi­ness­es and re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­i­sa­tions to ac­cel­er­ate cli­mate-smart in­vest­ment through­out the Caribbean.