‘Don’t make them wait’: Pressure grows at COP26 for new funding for climate damage
The small island nation of Jamaica, like many others in the Caribbean, is battered regularly by tropical storms that are getting fiercer as the ocean warms, threatening to wreck homes, energy grids, hospitals, roads and ports.
Weather-driven losses to vulnerable islands in the region – now also beset by a dive in tourism due to the Covid-19 pandemic – have caused debt levels and borrowing costs to soar.
That is leaving them struggling to invest in the climate protection their citizens need, according to the head of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund (GCF).
Yannick Glemarec, who visited the Caribbean 10 days ago, said countries such as tiny Dominica are trapped in a
