Caribbean and Climate Change: Challenges for Development and Social and Gender Equity
Channel: Regions Refocus
Date: 2017-12-13

In this 9-minute video, Manuel "Butch" Montes presents the paper “The Caribbean and Climate Change: Challenges for Development and Social and Gender Equity" written by his colleague Mariama Williams of South Centre. Mariama's paper provides an extensive and nuanced illustration of the effects of and responses to climate change in the Caribbean, particularly its social and gender equity implications. Butch illustrates Mariama's arguments for the implementation of heterodox and feminist policies and approaches, towards building gender-responsive climate policies in the Caribbean. 

Filmed at the event "African-Caribbean Cross-Regional Exchange," co-convened by Regions Refocus and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung with Arab NGO Network for Development; Institute for Law and Economics, Jamaica; Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at University of the West Indies; South Centre; and Third World Network-Africa, on 14 July 2017 in New York, as a side event to the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.