PRIME MINISTER BROWNE WELCOMES ST LUCIA’S MEMBERSHIP IN COSIS

St Lucia is the latest nation to join the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS), an initiative co-founded by Antigua and Barbuda to seek climate justice for small island states.
The instrument of accession was signed on Wednesday by St Lucia’s Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre.
Prime Minister Gaston Browne, who founded COSIS with the prime minister of Tuvalu last year, is quoted as saying, “I am personally and officially delighted that the government of St Lucia has joined this initiative to seek climate justice for small islands that have suffered, and are continuing to endure, the harmful impact of climate change on our countries”.
Prime Minister Browne notes St Lucia is the second country to join COSIS over the last week, following the accession of the South Pacific island nation Vanuatu.
Prime Minister Browne has expressed the hope that other Caribbean countries would get on board “in our collective interest”.
He noted that COSIS now consists of 6 small island states that will shortly be seeking an opinion from the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), regarding their legal rights for compensation for climate change damage.