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Additional Tools to Tackle Climate Change
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Additional Tools to Tackle Climate Change
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Contact:
Rose
Marie Harris Wednesday,
February 7, 2001 -- The
Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Caribbean Planning for Adaptation
to Climate Change (CPACC) project are helping St. Lucia to address the complex
21st century problem of climate change. Earlier
this week, the two organisations made a donation of computers and related
equipment to the Meteorological Department, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the
Ministry of Planning to enhance their capacity to address issues related to
climate change. According
to Bishinu Tulsie, Chief Science and Sustainable Development Officer in the
Ministry of Planning, climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge facing
mankind today. Through the CPACC project, he said, Caribbean countries are
getting assistance to better address and handle the many related issues of
adaptation. “It
is happening under a number of components that deal with data collection and
analysis, economic evaluation etc,” he said. “It is within this framework
that we are receiving assistance from CPACC and the OAS to develop local
capability to address some of the adaptation measures.” He
went on: “The assistance will go specifically to the Met Office
where they will be collecting and analysing climate related data, the
Ministry of Agriculture is assisting in this exercise with the inventory of
coastal resources and also the economic valuation of coastal resources, and some
of the equipment will be given to the Ministry of Planning and the Geographic
Information Section of the Ministry of Planning.” The
mandate of CPACC is to help build capacity in the Caribbean to tackle climate
change. “We
are actually trying to do that through enabling local technicians to acquire the
skills to deal with climate change,” said Dr. Ulric Trotz, Project Manager of
CPACC’s Regional Project Implementation Unit.
He
added: “We also look at building institutional strengths so at the end of the
project, each country will have resistance skills to deal with some of the
issues we have to face. We would
not have made this progress without the commitment of governments to support our
activities through allowing some of their senior officials to participate in
this project.” St.
Lucia’s relationship with CPACC began in 1997. Since then, many St Lucians
have benefited from training in data management. |
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