The Caribbean region needs a solution to climate change

On April 30, the United Nations called on the international community to look for efficient, inexpensive investment models to help Caribbean island nations cope effectively with extreme weather phenomena such as extreme seas. high intensity storms and storms and droughts .

>>>The Caribbean region is vulnerable to climate and economy

The report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that Caribbean island nations are facing the challenge of adapting to climate change at a very high cost, while funds for the fight against climate change are increasingly exhausted.

The IPCC is working to strengthen and disseminate human-induced climate change knowledge sources to lay the groundwork for the necessary measures to cope with the effects of climate change.

At the forum on tools for climate change adapters taking place in Havana (Cuba), Chris Field, co-chair of IPCC, stressed the need to look for help models. The Caribbean nation copes with the effects of extreme weather events effectively, but does not have to invest heavily in infrastructure.

Sea level rise can reduce the size of these island nations and negatively affect infrastructure in the context that more than 50% of the Caribbean island population lives less than 1.5 km from the coast.

The first direct challenge to these island states is to assess threats to determine the most appropriate adaptation policies based on science.

IPCC emphasizes the need to invest in the management of coastal areas and coastal ecosystems against rising sea levels that not only protect residents and infrastructure but also protect living species in coastal areas. sea, at the same time modeling different scenarios of high-intensity cyclone as well as its impact on coastal areas.