are on the front line of what is happening in the front line of changes in the climate. the reality is for us in the caribbean are hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, many of us in the region are affected by volcanoes. we'll have landslide, tsunamis, storm surges, so there are lots of things happening in the caribbean. we are really on the frontline. and the question askedis frontline. and the question asked is what are we going to do about it, i believe the intensity, the frequency, because it is changing. the reality is first i think we have to accept that things are changing. we have to plan for it. barbados and the caribbean has taken a number of steps in terms of our planning, to be more prepared. one of the worst things we can do as a region is to act as if we are responding, reacting to something we should have seen coming. a lot of these changes we should see coming. firstly as you said, i think the caribbean region has to work together as one. when we speak on the international