![His Excellency Natalio Wheatley](/images/2024/06/13/speaker-pic_wheatley.png)
“While we as islands welcome support, we are not waiting around to be rescued. We are being proactive in identifying climate and sustainability solutions by sharing our experiences with each other. This is not new. GLISPA has been doing this for 18 years. Bringing islands together to share experiences is in our DNA.
Here in the Caribbean, GLISPA was instrumental in catalysing the Caribbean Challenge Initiative or CCI for short. Very important steps were taken through the CCI to conserve our region's biodiversity. And while the CCI lives on through its brainchild the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund, my hope is that at some point in the near future we will launch a Caribbean Challenge Initiative 2.0"