The St. Lucia government has welcomed the adoption of the Paris Agreement at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change over the weekend saying it is an inclusive, transparent, party-driven mechanism that allowed every country to be heard.
Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony, who congratulated his Energy and Environment Minister Dr. James Fletcher for his “outstanding job” during the two-week negotiations in the French capital, said the Paris agreement was a “phenomenal achievement” and hoped that all countries will abide by their commitments and obligations.
Anthony said the Caribbean is also pleased that the conference had “adopted One Point Five to Stay Alive” and that the “future looks much brighter today than it did two weeks ago”
Nearly 200 countries adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution, but imposing no sanctions on the countries that failed to do so.
