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Barbados calls for collective action on climate change  

Xinhua, October 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

Barbados' Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said on Friday that "we need an ambitious, high performance, legally binding agreement with global participation" to deal with climate change.

Stuart made the appeal as he took the podium of the annual high-level debate of the UN General Assembly, which entered its fifth day here Friday.

He said that the climate change "is an existential issue for all countries but in particular for those like mine that are Small Island Developing States".

"Our countries stand on the edge of a yawning abyss opened up by climate change," he added.

Stuart noted that 196 delegations will gather for the 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris this December, at which he hoped "we will agree to collective action which will make possible the continued survival of our planet."

Stuart said that all the countries of the Caribbean Community have made clear their view on what should be the outcome of the meeting.

"All parties (should) commit to take individual and collective action to curb greenhouse gas emissions in line with our ambitious goal to hold global average temperature increase to well below 1.5 degrees Centigrade above pre-industrial levels," he said.

"All parties (should) commit to support the particularly vulnerable countries that are Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries," he said. Endit