This webinar series is a follow up to CANARI’s Partners Forum: Towards climate justice in the Caribbean held January 19-20, 2026, in Barbados.
Key messages emerging from the Forum were:
- Climate change is fundamentally a justice issue for the Caribbean.
- The climate crisis is also a human rights crisis and responding to both is a legal obligation.
- Delivering climate justice for the Caribbean must be grounded in lived experiences of those facing the worst injustices and ensure that their voices are heard, their losses are recognised, and they have the freedom to imagine and demand a just future.
- Recent international advisory opinions provide legal and moral support for pursuing climate justice for the Caribbean.
- Climate finance must be founded on sovereignty of Caribbean states and take a human rights-based approach to reach those who most face climate injustices.
Participants at the Forum committed to:
- work together to build understanding, share experiences, and connect networks to drive active operationalisation of human rights in climate responses;
- further collaboration at all levels and amongst all key actors in the region to advance a just climate finance agenda for the Caribbean; and
- strengthen regional cooperation on climate justice through dialogue, capacity building, collective advocacy, and action.
This webinar series is contributing to taking forward these shared commitments. The overall goal of the series is to expand and deepen understanding of climate justice, share experiences, and connect networks to strengthen advocacy and action for climate justice in the Caribbean.
Session 1: Understanding types of climate injustice
May 6th, 2026
The climate crisis isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a justice issue. In our opening session, we mapped the landscape of climate injustice as it shows up across the Caribbean, from unequal exposure to climate hazards to uneven access to resources and decision-making. Participants left with a clearer framework for naming and understanding the different forms climate injustice takes — and a foundation for the deeper conversations ahead.
Session 2: Centring human rights in climate justice
May 20th, 2026
Climate change doesn’t affect everyone equally — and human rights don’t exist in a vacuum. In our second session, we unpacked the critical links between climate change and human rights in the Caribbean, exploring how the climate crisis amplifies existing inequalities and why intersecting identities — race, class, gender, disability, and more — determine who carries the heaviest burden. Read on for the key insights and takeaways from this conversation.
Session 3: Women and LGBTQ+ persons’ lived experiences of climate injustice – June 3rd, 2026
Policies and data only tell part of the story. In our third session, we centred the voices and lived experiences of women and LGBTQ+ persons navigating the compounding pressures of climate change across the Caribbean. From everyday burdens to systemic barriers, this conversation made clear why inclusive, rights-based climate action isn’t optional — it’s essential. Here’s what we heard and what it means for the path forward.
Session 4: Rural communities and natural resource users’ lived experiences of climate injustice – June 17th, 2026
Rural communities and natural resource users—including farmers, fishers, forest users and others whose livelihoods depend directly on natural resources—are often among the first to experience climate impacts and among the first to respond. In our fourth session, we explored the lived experiences of climate injustice among rural communities and natural resource users across the Caribbean. Featured speakers included representatives from Barbuda, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados who shared firsthand accounts of how climate change is affecting their communities, livelihoods and cultures. And why climate justice is so important to secure their futures.
Session 5: Indigenous Peoples’ lived experiences of climate injustice – July 1st, 2026
Territories, cultures and rights are not abstract ideas—they’re real, lived, defended, and fought for every day. In our fifth session, we centred the voices and lived experiences of Indigenous leaders and advocates from across the Caribbean, exploring how climate injustice is experienced within Indigenous communities. The conversation also highlighted the action Indigenous Peoples are already taking to protect their territories, cultures and rights, and to advance climate justice. This wasn’t just about the harms being faced — it was about the leadership already underway. Here’s what we heard and what it means for the path forward.
Session 6: Youth lived experiences of climate injustice – July 15th, 2026
Climate impacts are affecting youths’ outlooks on life and what is possible for their futures. Our sixth session brought together young climate justice advocates from across the region and explored exactly how their lives, opportunities, and aspirations are being shaped by climate impacts while highlighting the leadership and solutions that youths are already bringing to the fight for climate justice.