A group of 39 small islands has said it is watching with “deep concern” as Hurricane Melissa barrels through the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
“All of our small island developing states know all too well the fear and dread those in the hurricane’s path are feeling,” the group said.<\/p>\n
“This trauma should not be anyone’s norm.”<\/p>\n
Sixteen Caribbean islands are among the Alliance of Small Island States members, including Jamaica and Cuba – where the Category 5 storm is on course to hit.<\/p>\n
In the statement, the group raised the alarm over unprecedented global temperatures causing warmer seas and more severe storms.<\/p>\n
“It is the people who have contributed the least to the greenhouse gas emissions which exacerbate climate change, who pay the devastating price,” the group added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This is why when countries converge at COP30 in just a few weeks, it is crucial that we finally and effectively address this vicious cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We need urgent action that gets us back on track with a 1.5C warming limit increase, so we can avoid even worse impacts to come.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of 39 small islands has said it is watching with “deep concern” as Hurricane Melissa barrels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-108221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}