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Re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al cli­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tives met in Grena­da on De­cem­ber 4th for the third Ger­man-Caribbean Cli­mate Talks, where par­tic­i­pants ex­am­ined the out­comes of COP30 and out­lined steps need­ed to ad­vance Caribbean re­silience. The meet­ing took place at the Radis­son Ho­tel in Grand Anse and in­clud­ed am­bas­sadors, tech­ni­cal of­fi­cials, youth ad­vo­cates, and civ­il so­ci­ety lead­ers. The talks fol­lowed con­tin­ued re­cov­ery ef­forts in Grena­da af­ter Hur­ri­cane Beryl in 2024.

The event was host­ed by His Ex­cel­len­cy Dr. Christophe Eick, Am­bas­sador of the Fed­er­al Re­pub­lic of Ger­many and Spe­cial En­voy for Cli­mate Is­sues in the Caribbean. Am­bas­sador Eick point­ed to the role of small is­land de­vel­op­ing states in in­ter­na­tion­al cli­mate ne­go­ti­a­tions and not­ed Ger­many’s sup­port for the re­gion.

Am­bas­sador Eick stat­ed that Ger­many had en­tered more than EUR 30 mil­lion in new co­op­er­a­tion agree­ments with CARI­COM and re­mained a lead­ing con­trib­u­tor to the Adap­ta­tion Fund. He added that the glob­al com­mu­ni­ty, par­tic­u­lar­ly the largest emit­ters, must ac­cel­er­ate cli­mate ac­tion to keep the 1.5°C tar­get with­in reach.