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Challenges to Sustainability: A Caribbean reflection

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Peggy Antrobus is from the Caribbean – living and working in many of the island states. Since 1974, when she served as advisor on Women's Affairs to the government of Jamaica and established their Women's Bureau, she has worked for the advancement of women's rights and development. In 1978 she set up the Women and Development Unit at the University of the West Indies, and is a founding member of many regional and international organizations including the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era and the International Gender and Trade Network. She has contributed chapters and articles to many publications and her book, The Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies, was published by Zed Books in 2004.

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  1. See Girvan's article ‘Are Caribbean countries facing existential threats?’, 1 Nov 2010 on his website HYPERLINK http://www.normangirvan.info.

  2. These negotiations were held in Cancun in December 2010. There G77 countries, with the exception of Bolivia, caved in to demands of the developed countries leading to the virtual abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol (with its legally binding system for global emissions reduction targets, monitoring and compliance) for a voluntary pledge and review system. Fortunately, at the follow-up meeting in Bangkok in April 2011, the G77 joined by China, managed to restore Kyoto to clear a way forward to the Climate Change Conference to be held in Durban in December this year (2011).

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Calls for sustainability to be based on human rights and the protection of natural resource base as the source of our collective well-being

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Antrobus, P. Challenges to Sustainability: A Caribbean reflection. Development 54, 237–239 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.6

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