CARIBBEAN-ENVIRONMENT-Caribbean environment experts to meet in St. Lucia

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Climate change experts from across the Caribbean begin a three-day meeting here on Tuesday to discuss ways of reducing the impact of climate change on the region’s agriculture and tourism sectors. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat will host its third climate change seminar from September 3 that will also focus on “strategies and innovations in tourism and agriculture”. The organisers said a mini festival portraying and dramatizing issues and actions regarding the impact of climate change on the region will follow addresses at Tuesday’s opening ceremony, which is expected to attract over 100 guests from across the region.