Good, France, June 9, 2025 (PMO) — As international leaders collect in France for the extremely anticipated third United Nations Ocean Convention (UNOC3), St. Kitts and Nevis continues to solidify its place on the desk of worldwide local weather and ocean governance. The Hon. Dr. Joyelle Clarke, Minister of Sustainable Improvement, Surroundings, Local weather Motion and Constituency Empowerment, is at present main the Federation’s delegation in Good, the place she continues to place St. Kitts and Nevis as a daring voice for Small Island Creating States (SIDS) on issues of ocean conservation, local weather resilience, and international mobility.
Throughout her official participation at UNOC3, Minister Clarke was specifically invited to attend a high-level Champion Leaders Luncheon on June eighth, hosted by the World Centre for Local weather Mobility. The luncheon introduced collectively a choose group of Ministers and international companions from Saint Kitts and Nevis, Fiji, and Tuvalu, nations on the frontline of the local weather disaster, to interact in important discussions on advancing international cooperation, defending weak nations, and driving pressing options on climate-induced migration and ocean sustainability.
Talking in the course of the session, Minister Clarke underscored the immense worth of St. Kitts and Nevis being current in these high-level international areas, notably at a time when the world’s consideration is sharply targeted on the devastating results of local weather change on small islands. She remarked, “There’s nonetheless a lot work that must be finished, however what’s equally essential is recognizing the areas that gatherings similar to these create. They permit us to not solely share our technical priorities, but in addition to specific solidarity, deliver private experiences to the desk, and remind the world that for small island nations like ours, local weather change shouldn’t be a tutorial dialogue, it’s an existential actuality.”
Minister Clarke additionally carried the solidarity and message of Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew, noting that whereas the Prime Minister was unable to attend as a consequence of urgent obligations, he stays absolutely dedicated to the worldwide battle for local weather justice and to making sure that St. Kitts and Nevis stays lively, current, and influential on the world stage.
As local weather mobility, ocean safety, and sustainable growth change into more and more interlinked, St. Kitts and Nevis continues to make use of each alternative to advocate for pressing international reforms, amplified financing, and concrete motion to guard probably the most weak.
Minister Clarke’s engagements in Good not solely reaffirm the Federation’s management underneath the Sustainable Island State Agenda but in addition display the federal government’s unrelenting pursuit of worldwide partnerships that may ship tangible advantages for the folks of St. Kitts and Nevis. As international negotiations proceed, St. Kitts and Nevis stands agency in its place, small island voices should not solely be heard however should assist form the worldwide response to the local weather disaster.
The third United Nations Ocean Convention continues via this week, with Minister Clarke scheduled to take part in further high-level bilateral conferences, technical classes, and negotiations on ocean governance, blue economic system cooperation, and local weather finance for weak island nations.
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