The exercise of personal and shared responsibility by countries, including those of the Caribbean, has never been more important than at this time in the effort to thwart the impacts of a changing climate. This is according to Professors Tannecia Stephenson and Michael Taylor, both of them respected climate-change researchers from The University of the West Indies (UWI), and who have noted for the region key findings from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. “How bad it becomes will depend on how bad we let it become! The world, and the Caribbean, have a say in how bad climate change eventually becomes and also how bad the impacts will eventually be,” the duo insisted in a paper shared with The Gleaner.