The Caribbean Nat­ur­al Re­sources In­sti­tute con­vened its re­gion­al Part­ners Fo­rum on cli­mate jus­tice on Jan­u­ary 19 and 20 in Bar­ba­dos.

The Fo­rum brought to­geth­er more than 85 par­tic­i­pants, in­clud­ing mem­bers of the Caribbean Cli­mate Jus­tice Al­liance, front­line com­mu­ni­ties, cli­mate de­fend­ers and ad­vo­cates. Lead­ers of re­gion­al tech­ni­cal agen­cies, ex­perts in cli­mate fi­nance and law, me­dia rep­re­sen­ta­tives, de­vel­op­ment part­ners and phil­an­thropic or­gan­i­sa­tions al­so at­tend­ed.

Dis­cus­sions fo­cused on strate­gies to strength­en col­lab­o­ra­tion to ad­dress cli­mate change as a hu­man rights is­sue in the Caribbean. Ses­sions ex­am­ined lived ex­pe­ri­ences of cli­mate im­pacts at the com­mu­ni­ty lev­el, re­cent glob­al ad­vi­so­ry opin­ions on cli­mate jus­tice, im­pli­ca­tions for the Caribbean le­gal con­text and ap­proach­es to cli­mate fi­nance.