(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Climate Change poses one of the most serious challenges to the sustainable development of the small island and low lying coastal developing states of the Caribbean. Recognising this threat, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) in tandem with the CARICOM Secretariat has drafted a regional Climate Change Strategic Framework that should point the way to building the Region’s resilience to the effects of Climate Change, over the next five years.
Described as the premier document for resource mobilisation, the Strategic Framework has its primary focus on developing programmes to support region wide mitigation of and adaptation to Climate Change.
The Framework is predicated on four strategic pillars: reducing greenhouse gas emissions through energy reduction and conservation and switching to renewable energy sources; minimizing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions through disaster mitigation; developing and implementing public awareness and education programmes and building national and regional capacities to manage adaptation.
At the Second meeting of the CARICOM Task Force on Climate Change and Development on Thursday, members agreed that the Strategic Framework would be fine-tuned for presentation to the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in July.
Leading up to the Conference however, the Climate Change Centre would continue its Region-wide consultations particularly with Civic Society to solicit feedback on the Strategic Framework. In undertaking this, the Task Force has also recommended that the document should be placed on both the websites of CARICOM Secretariat (http://www.caricom.org) and the CCCCC for persons who wish to provide feedback on the Framework.
Comments should be directed to the Secretariat at piu@caricom.org as well as to the Climate Change Centre at www.caribbeanclimate.bz by the latest 15 May 2009.
Described as the premier document for resource mobilisation, the Strategic Framework has its primary focus on developing programmes to support region wide mitigation of and adaptation to Climate Change.
The Framework is predicated on four strategic pillars: reducing greenhouse gas emissions through energy reduction and conservation and switching to renewable energy sources; minimizing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions through disaster mitigation; developing and implementing public awareness and education programmes and building national and regional capacities to manage adaptation.
At the Second meeting of the CARICOM Task Force on Climate Change and Development on Thursday, members agreed that the Strategic Framework would be fine-tuned for presentation to the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in July.
Leading up to the Conference however, the Climate Change Centre would continue its Region-wide consultations particularly with Civic Society to solicit feedback on the Strategic Framework. In undertaking this, the Task Force has also recommended that the document should be placed on both the websites of CARICOM Secretariat (http://www.caricom.org) and the CCCCC for persons who wish to provide feedback on the Framework.
Comments should be directed to the Secretariat at piu@caricom.org as well as to the Climate Change Centre at www.caribbeanclimate.bz by the latest 15 May 2009.
