COP28: We will promote the VI’s 'readiness to receive funding & investment'- Premier
Dr Wheatley is leading a VI delegation to COP28 from November 30 to December 6, 2023, a story first reported by Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) on November 26, 2023.
“We will advance for climate justice, where major polluters recognise their responsibility to assist those disproportionately affected, in adaption and mitigation, by adopting metrics which properly assess eligibility for concessional finance,” Dr Wheatley stated in a Government Information Service (GIS) press release on November 29, 2023.
VI ready to ‘receive funding & investment’
Additionally, the Premier said the delegation will promote the Virgin Islands’ “readiness to receive funding and investment, due to our advanced legislative framework, our Climate Change Trust Fund, and a bevy of costed approved projects.”
COP28 will explore the climate-health nexus, where bi-lateral discussions on health concerns and implications of climate change will be held.
The Premier’s delegation will include Minister for Health and Social Development, Honourable Vincent O. Wheatley (R9); Climate Change officer in the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, and Climate Change, Ms Angela Burnett-Penn, and the Acting United Kingdom/European Union Representative Ms Tracy Bradshaw.
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13 Responses to “COP28: We will promote the VI’s 'readiness to receive funding & investment'- Premier”
We have a" bevy of costed approved projects" that will benefit from your investment, thank you!
The small countries in this world must also accept responsibility for their share, though small, by cannot be compare to large industrious countries, and nations, of polluting the world negative Climate status, as presently is.
Many of the world's countries, rich in natural resources, and other available goods at there disposable, considering, and heavily investing in Nuclear Power, while others enhancing the sun's energy to help adding to the Climate Change problems.
In clear identification of man greedy nature it is hard for me to be convinced that the greater, by far, polluters will change their values financially to accommodate small countries value.
It is, in my opinion the our Premier mind is clouded for Large Forum attention, at the experience of whose interest he has promised to defend. In this world of reality the small ones suck the milk of the big ones. But in this world of economics it is the big countries sucking the wealth of the small ones.