climate change

  • Photo of CARICOM ACP-MEAs project helps Regional environmentalists prepare for Bio-diversity COP

    CARICOM ACP-MEAs project helps Regional environmentalists prepare for Bio-diversity COP

    Regional environmental officers are attending a workshop to help them prepare for a major international conference on biodiversity, to be held in Mexico in December. The CARICOM ACP-MEAs project is hosting the regional workshop October 11-13 at the Grand Coastal Hotel in Guyana. The purpose of the workshop is to prepare Caribbean negotiators to participate in the 13th Meeting of…

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  • Photo of Climatic events should spur renewable energy efforts: CARICOM SG

    Climatic events should spur renewable energy efforts: CARICOM SG

    Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Irwin LaRocque on Monday said the recent climatic events that affected Haiti, The Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Dominica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic emphasized the need to intensify efforts to maximise the Region’s renewable energy potential. Addressing the opening of the EU-Caribbean Sustainable Energy Conference in Bridgetown, Barbados on 10 October 2016, the Secretary-General said the…

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  • Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management: Prepare, Respond, Recover

    ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT WILL BE THE FOCUS OF A TWO-DAY MEETING HOSTED BY THE EU-FUNDED INTRA-ACP APP Gros Islet, Saint Lucia, September 19, 2016 – “Climate has changed; climate will change and climate demands change”, said Dr. Michael Taylor, a Physicist at a Climate Studies Group in the Caribbean in 2012. He was…

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  • Photo of US$33M to finance climate change resilient infrastructure in Caribbean

    US$33M to finance climate change resilient infrastructure in Caribbean

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Officials from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have signed an agreement to provide US$33,000,000 towards financing sustainable infrastructure projects in the Caribbean region. At least 50 per cent of the funds will be used to fund climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. The agreement was signed last month at the CDB…

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  • Photo of CIMH and Sutron Corporation partner to help Caribbean nations build climate resilience

    CIMH and Sutron Corporation partner to help Caribbean nations build climate resilience

    (Bridgetown, Barbados) — National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) from across the Caribbean are now better equipped and trained to monitor climate in the region, thanks to a series of training workshops co-hosted by the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) and international environmental and hydrological monitoring company Sutron Corporation.   The training, which took place from July 25…

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  • Photo of CARICOM and Chile demonstrate South-south Cooperation at Work

    CARICOM and Chile demonstrate South-south Cooperation at Work

    BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JULY 5TH, 2016 (PRESS SEC) – Caribbean leaders today officially exchanged views with the President of the Republic of Chile, Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet, at the 37th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Georgetown, Guyana. Prime Minister of Dominica the Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit, who is the Chairman of…

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  • Photo of Suriname President encourages Region to diversify economic offerings

    Suriname President encourages Region to diversify economic offerings

    President of Suriname His Excellency Desi Bouterse has encouraged the Region to further diversify its offerings on the economic market. He was speaking at the Opening Ceremony of the Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the CARICOM Heads of Government on Monday July 4, 2016 in Georgetown Guyana. President Bouterse highlighted that the Region faced a number of economic challenges…

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  • Photo of Inaction on Climate Change could lead to enormous costs for the Caribbean

    Inaction on Climate Change could lead to enormous costs for the Caribbean

    Unless bold steps are taken now to eliminate the risks from Climate Change “future generations are in big trouble and for the Caribbean the trouble is massive “.  This is the warning given by UWI Professor Emeritus and former Assistant Secretary General for Human and Social Development, CARICOM Secretariat,  Dr.  Edward Greene, to a large audience at the UWI Distinguished…

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  • Photo of USAID project boosts Grenada’s resilience to climate change

    USAID project boosts Grenada’s resilience to climate change

    ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Thursday June 23, 2016 – Grenada’s capacity to mitigate climate change risks stemming from storms, hurricanes, droughts and other extreme weather events has been enhanced by a US$9.5 million Rallying the Region to Action on Climate Change (RRACC) project. It is implemented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with the Organization of…

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  • Photo of CARICOM Climate Change Institution wins international award

    CARICOM Climate Change Institution wins international award

    The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has been awarded the 2016 Energy Globe for a project submitted on Belize. CCCCC won from over 1,500 projects submitted from 170 countries and according to a statement issued here, the Energy Globe Award is a prestigious environmental prize worldwide. “It distinguishes projects regionally, nationally and globally that conserve resources such as…

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