climate change
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Caribbean Carbon Forum 2015 looks towards International Climate Conference
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Chile will host the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF 2015) next week with “an eye” on the forthcoming International Climate Conference in Paris. In a release on Wednesday, the World Bank said TLACCF 2015 will take place in Santiago, Chile from September 9-11. …
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Regional meeting on Rio Summit declaration
Caribbean delegates ended a two-day meeting in St Lucia on Wednesday identifying opportunities for collective action towards the full implementation of measures contained in Declaration of the 1992 Rio Summit. File Photo The organisers said the conference looked at access rights to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters as enshrined in Principle 10 of the Declaration. The meeting was…
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Regional Forum focuses on effects of climate change on agriculture
The first ever Caribbean Forum on Climate-Smart Agriculture has ended here with the organizers saying it provided an opportunity to promote and support options for adapting the Caribbean agricultural sector to climate change. “We hope to be able to count on committed stakeholders to support the integration of climate change considerations into policies and research, and to foster institutional and…
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CDB advances climate change and disaster risk management of member countries
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) agenda for reducing risks and building resilience in the region got a much-needed boost recently. Twenty-three disaster risk management and community development professionals from 15 countries gathered at the headquarters of Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) for an intensive five-day workshop on project design and implementation organised by Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (CDRRF). …
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CDB Finances Training for Caribbean Water Sector Professionals
Senior Water Sector professionals from across the Caribbean will meet on August 23 – 24 to identify better ways of planning for the impact of climate change on the region’s water supply and systems. The meeting, co-hosted by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), takes the form of a workshop entitled “Building a Climate Resilient Water Sector in the Caribbean: Strategies…
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Caribbean Artists Raise Their Voices for Climate Justice
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Aug 10 2015 (IPS) – Award-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Kendel Hippolyte thinks that Caribbean nationals should view the Earth as their mother. “For me, the whole thing is so basic: the earth that we are living on and in is our mother and there are ways that we are supposed to treat our mother and relate…
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President Barack Obama’s Climate Change Plan 2015
United States’ President Barack Obama is set to launch a new energy programme to cut greenhouse gas emissions as part of his ongoing bid to combat climate change. The Clean Power Plan is designed to reduce GHG emissions from US power stations and the programme will focus on renewable energy sources including wind and solar power. Power stations are the…
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Trinidad and Tobago outlines $2 billion climate plan
Trinidad and Tobago has become the first Caribbean nation to outline its contribution to a UN climate deal, proposing limited greenhouse gas cuts across three main sectors by 2030. The government says it will target 15% carbon reductions in power generation, heavy industry and transport over the next 15 years, modelled on a business as usual baseline. This, says the submission,…
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Accreditation: a regional first for Antigua’s Environment Division
Antigua and Barbuda no longer has to go through a middle man to access financing from the Adaptation Fund of the Climate Change Convention. Over the weekend, the country received word that it has been accredited as a National Implementation Entity. “This facility within the climate change convention was negotiated specifically to allow developing countries to have direct access. “Over…
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Caribbean formatting climate change strategy for Paris meeting
GROS ISLET, St Lucia — Government climate negotiators and civil society groups from the Caribbean who met with artistes and journalists here last week have discussed strategies to drum up local awareness and attract international attention as part of the region's preparation for the climate change meeting in Paris at the end of the year. The plan is to roll…
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