PRIME MINISTER GASTON BROWNE TO FEATURE IN NETFLIX FILM

Prime Minister, the Hon. Gaston Browne will feature in a Netflix docu-feature on the climate crisis which will be aired in 2024.

Prime Minister Browne has been among the experts and leaders interviewed for the film which carries the working title: “1.5”.

This is the temperature beyond which climate change is forecast to have the worst effects, especially for small island developing states, such as Antigua and Barbuda.

He was interviewed by the film crew while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month.

Filming began in the lead-up to the 26th Conference Of the Parties or COP26 in Glasglow, Scotland last year, and is expected to culminate in November at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt.

The Office of the Prime Minister said the head of government was also interviewed on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting by New York Times climate reporter, Somini Sengupta.

That interview had focused on the discussions for a Multi-dimensional Vulnerability Index or MVI.

Prime Minister Browne co-chairs a high-level UN panel tasked with crafting the index; he is also chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, AOSIS.