Dominica
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Population: 72,247
GDP: $719.6 million (2008 est.)
Total Area: 751 sq km
Annual carbon emissions per capita: 1.38
Annual carbon emissions as percent of world's total: 0.0003%
“At a meeting of indigenous peoples from around the world to discuss climate change, representatives from Dominica’s Carib territory warned that coastal erosion, mud slides, longer droughts and more severe hurricanes are just some of the impacts of climate change affecting the Caribbean region. Chief Charles Williams of the Kalinago territory told the U.N.-affiliated Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change that “most indigenous people live on the margins…their ‘purses’ are not as strong as others when it comes to coping with climate change.”
