Last week, the two Arubans, Oriana Wouters and Nigel Maduro, traveled to Sint Maarten. There, they attended the Caribbean Climate Justice Camp, where they represented the island within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. During this meeting, they discussed various topics. Preventing climate change is something that won’t be easy.
Oriana Wouters, a participant, stated that the Caribbean Climate Justice Camp was a four-day workshop specifically for Caribbean participants to be trained in climate change, but especially in climate justice. This means that people keep themselves busy identifying how climate change affects groups of people or countries differently from each other.
It is found that countries that have polluted more in the past are the ones now working on global management. Those that have spurred global climate change and the islands, such as Aruba, are the ones most affected by climate change.
Nigel Maduro, another participant, indicated that the Caribbean Climate Justice Camp, organized in Sint Maarten by Rooth People and Green Peace, was a camp where different nations of the Caribbean came together and all talked, giving workshops on climate change justice. How this affects people, especially those in the Caribbean. How people in the Caribbean are the most vulnerable to climate change.
According to Maduro, they learned a lot and there were different workshops on the injustices that are happening and how people are affected by climate change, such as vulnerable people, women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, and those most affected by climate change. They even learned about turtle conservation as a tribute or how to protect marine life.
