CARICOM Heads to COP31: One Year After Melissa, the Caribbean Must Demand Money That Moves, by Annieth Woollery, Independent writer.
As CARICOM prepares for COP31 in Antalya, Hurricane Melissa's US$8.8 billion bill shows what the region must demand: a loss and damage fund that pays quickly and at scale, real adaptation money, debt-pause clauses and a hard line on 1.5°C.