“Home-grown solutions”, including “sugarcane waste to create biofuel” and “coral reef baskets to protect coastlines”, are also useful for Dominica, said the sustainability site Corporate Knights.
The island is hoping Cop28 will be a chance to lobby for “greater pools of more equitable funding”. While financing will be important, so too will be the actions of larger countries, said environmentalist and Dominica resident K. Lisana Dyer, who is among the region’s representatives at the conference.
“Countries like Dominica emit less than 1% of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and yet still we suffer 100%,” she told the site. “That’s not fair.”
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