And while the region will let go a collective sigh of relief when the hurricane season ends, that's not until the end of the month and right now the focus remains on COP26.
But with mounting skepticism and measured expectations over what can really be accomplished in Glasgow CARICOM is bracing itself for a fail.
This afternoon Cherisse Halsall spoke once again to the 5C's executive director, and he told her about what's non-negotiable in the last remaining days of COP.
Colin Young, Executive Director, Caribbean Community Center
"We still maintain our three asks that we came here with, we want countries to take actions to keep 1.5 within reach, right now we are still at 2.7 degrees. So, if we leave here and we don't get that, from that point of view COP26 would have been a failure and we would be feeling the effects of this for yet another year without any certainty as to where we will go. The second thing we want is for them to live up to thier promise, a hundred billion dollars is not a lot when they have put trillions into recovery from COVID. If we leave here and there isn't a credible pathway to a hundred a year and it's not transparent so that we can see who is delivering what to whom, we would also have had a failure on that and on the third area which is, we need to finalize the rules so that the Paris agreement can be implemented. We are having challenges there do countries are posturing and they are delaying tactics on the issues of transparency, you would think that everybody wants to be transparent but we are having countries that are holding transparency hostage because they want another, another ask."
