Former President Anthony Carmona Warns Of Climate Change Costs Facing Caribbean

Former President of Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Carmona is warning that the Caribbean continues to face significant economic and environmental consequences from climate change, with coastal communities and natural resources increasingly at risk.

He pointed to the financial toll of climate-related disasters across the region, saying the Caribbean has incurred billions of dollars in losses over the past two decades.

“In the last two decades in the Caribbean region, it has cost us $137 billion as a result of rising seas, sea erosion, the hurricanes, the droughts, the flooding, the destruction of our biodiversity, our fauna and flora, the diminution of our stocks, fish stocks in the sea. It has resulted in vast economic cost to the Caribbean region.”