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Pinder says industrialised countries are ‘obligated to vulnerable, non-emitting countries’ over climate crisis

ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder.

ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder.

ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder said industrialised countries are obligated to vulnerable, non-emitting countries for their contribution to the climate crisis.

His comment came during a United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner Human Rights 75 High-Level Climate and Environment Roundtable in Switzerland.

Representatives discussed justice and accountability for environmental harm.

“The Bahamas supports the United Nations (UN) Resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of states in respect of climate change,” he said. “We view the resolution as a significant milestone in our decades-long struggle for climate justice. The Bahamas will be submitting a written statement in support of the advisory opinion calling for differentiated responsibilities based on proportional contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions.”

The Bahamas is taking a proactive approach. The effects of the climate crisis have created a need for catastrophic property insurance to either be unavailable or beyond the reach of many in The Bahamas. The Bahamas has, therefore, committed to develop an insurance product that will be funded from the aforementioned liabilities of private industry and industrialised states. We are, therefore, not only fighting to achieve climate justice, but also working to ensure that its reparations accrue to the benefit of the most vulnerable.”

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ExposedU2C 1 year ago

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moncurcool 1 year ago

Amazing how a government that burns bunker C fuel and all the other fuel emissions from BEC/BPL and won't go to solar, talk about other countries. Just dumbfounded .

sheeprunner12 1 year ago

Australia is sharing out some of their land to the small island Pacific states that will disappear underwater in the next coming decades.

Who will give up some of their land to The Bahamas ........ Cuba, Haiti or DR????

Definitely not Florida, they want to level us with bombs. 😭😭😭

hrysippus 1 year ago

Excellent post, Sheetrunner; one of the several reasons that England pushed the Bahamas government into independence was because the country no longer wanted to be responsible for the Bahamas population. One of my chiilren live abroad; I lucky, when time comes I gone you'll, and the best of independent luck toyou who gotta stay.

ExposedU2C 1 year ago

As far as the U.S. Government is concerned, Florida has enough illegal Haitian aliens already thanks to decades of successive PLP and FNM governments allowing The Bahamas to be used as a stepping stone for their illegal entry into Florida.

Besides, thanks to the Clinton Foundation, the U.S. Government is well aware that 50% of the Bahamian population is now of Haitian heritage and that the western half of the island of Hispaniola has lots of highland for so called Bahamians live on.

rosiepi 1 year ago

How did the Bahamas make the turn to a “non emitter”??

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