As the Caribbean lags be­hind the rest of the world in adopt­ing re­new­able forms of en­er­gy, the In­ter­na­tion­al Re­new­able En­er­gy Agency (IRE­NA) will launch a Latin Ame­ca and Caribbean ini­tia­tive this Oc­to­ber.

This was re­vealed by IRE­NA’s Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al, Francesco La Cam­era, in a sit-down in­ter­view with the Sun­day Busi­ness Guardian at the First Con­fer­ence on Tran­si­tion­ing Away from Fos­sil Fu­els in San­ta Mar­ta, Colom­bia, last week.

Sta­tis­tics in a 2026 re­port by IRE­NA show this re­gion, and par­tic­u­lar­ly Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T), is far be­hind in the adop­tion of re­new­able sources of en­er­gy.