The Caribbean is facing increasingly severe impacts of climate change, which is recognised as an existential threat to the region’s development. Caribbean stakeholders are increasingly calling attention to climate change as an issue of climate justice, requiring it be addressed centring equity and fairness in terms of who is responsible for causing climate change, who benefits, who is harmed, and how human rights are impacted.
CANARI Partners Forum, Barbados. January 2026. Credit: CANARI.
Responding to this call, in January 2026 the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) convened a “Partners Forum: Towards climate justice in the Caribbean” in Barbados to deepen shared understanding and to strengthen collaborations to address climate justice. The Forum was attended by 82 participants spanning frontline communities, human rights defenders and civil society advocates, including members of the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance; members of the legal profession; climate finance experts; representatives of key technical agencies in the Caribbean; academia; and international organisations and funding agencies and partners supporting climate and environmental justice.