Emerging Issue of the Viability of Legal Mechanisms Available to Caribbean Countries to Force Action on Climate Change and Its Existential Consequences

Abstract

As we navigate through the third decade of the 21st century confronted by a barrage of natural disasters with fingers pointed at climate change, what is clear is that the poor and vulnerable are the greatest victims of the ravages caused by changing weather conditions. According to Dr Fahad Saeed in response to the 2022 monsoon apocalyptic impact on many Pakistanis, “People with the smallest carbon footprints are suffering the most...The victims are living in mud homes with hardly any resources - they have contributed virtually nothing to climate changes.” Yusuf Baluch, a 17-year-old climate activist from Balochistan, says that inequality in the country is making the problem worse. He remembers his own family home being washed away by flooding when he was six years old. "People living in cities and from more privileged backgrounds are least affected by the flooding," he explains” [1]. The Caribbean has not been spared from the savagery inflicted on humanity by forces associated with climate change. This paper examines the prospects of litigating climate justice in the Caribbean.