By Peter Richards
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 20, CMC – President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Winston Anderson, Friday urged regional governments and organizations to push for the establishment of a new international climate compensation fund (ICIC) to hep deal with the impact of climate change , especially among small island developing states (SIDS).
He said that such a fund would assist in circumventing the difficulties associating with assigning liability to corporations and offers a viable alternative to protracted and complex litigation.
“I think it responds to the recognition that corporations, which are the emitters of greenhouse gases, should bear the responsibility for remedying the damage, and therefore entirely consistent with the polluter pays principle,” Justice Anderson told a two-day international conference ending here on Friday.
The conference “Climate Change Advisory Opinions from International Courts: Exploring Synergies & Implications” brought together climate lawyers, scientists and civil society, including from the Caribbean region and other small island developing states, as well as international climate law experts.
It is organised by the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Caribbean Environmental Law Unit in collaboration with the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, the University of Oslo`s Energy and Environment Programme, the Horst Sigrist Prize and the Judicial Institute for the Environment as well as the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment.
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