Jet Blue’s Climate Change & Tourism Scholarships

The JetBlue Foundation is offering two scholarships for students to attend the Centre for Responsible Travel (CREST) and the Puntacana Ecological Foundation’s Innovators Think Tank. This is a unique opportunity for students to learn about key issues involving climate change and tourism. Applications will be due July 10th and a decision will be made by July 13th. CREST will be handling applications. More

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (5CCCCC's) http://caribbeanclimate.bz/ is the region’s premier climate change focused blog. It is produced by the Belmopan, Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC). The Centre coordinates the region’s response to climate change. Officially opened in August 2005, the Centre is the key node for information on climate change issues and the region’s response to managing and adapting to climate change.

The Centre maintains the Caribbean’s most extensive repository of information and data on climate change specific to the region, which in part enables us to provide climate change-related policy advice and guidelines to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states through the CARICOM Secretariat. In this role, the Centre is recognised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and other international agencies as the focal point for climate change issues in the Caribbean.

The Centre is also a United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) recognised Centre of Excellence, one of an elite few. Learn more about how we’re working to make the Caribbean more climate resilient by perusing The Implementation Plan.

 

 

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Website Launched on Climate Change Weather Impacts in the Caribbean

29 November 2012: The Caribbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG), a project funded by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and implemented in partnership with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCC), has officially launched a website devoted to the project.

CARIWIG seeks to: provide unbiased, locally-relevant information on modelling weather impacts of climate change in the Caribbean over different time horizons (short-term, 2030s, or 2080s); train technical staff in its national, regional and intergovernmental stakeholder organizations about the use of such data; and develop related support networks within the region.

A central feature of the project will be a web-based service providing locally-relevant weather projections information based on the best available observed data for the region and outputs from adaptation of leading weather-generator models from the UK's Environment Agency Rainfall and Weather Impacts Generator (EARWIG) and Climate Impacts Programme 09 (UKCIP09) climate scenario systems. The new web service will provide inputs for climate impact studies and training programmes concerning the Caribbean, as well as inform management decisions and policy development regarding specific potential hazards and impacts of climate change.

CARIWIG also will: promote exchange visits to specialist institutions in order to build capacity within the Caribbean on climate-compatible development; foster climate change research within the region; and exchange research findings and best practice among stakeholder institutions.

The inaugural stakeholder consultation for the project will be held from 6-7 February 2013, in Kingston, Jamaica, to discuss how CARIWIG can best serve the three sectors identified as priorities for the project, namely, water, agriculture and coastal resources.

In addition to CCCCC, CARIWIG's implementing partners include the University of West Indies (UWI), the UK's University of East Anglia and Cuba's Institute of Meteorology. [CARIWIG Project Website]

 

Website Launched on Climate Change Weather Impacts in the Caribbean

29 November 2012: The Caribbean Weather Impacts Group (CARIWIG), a project funded by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and implemented in partnership with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCC), has officially launched a website devoted to the project.

CARIWIG seeks to: provide unbiased, locally-relevant information on modelling weather impacts of climate change in the Caribbean over different time horizons (short-term, 2030s, or 2080s); train technical staff in its national, regional and intergovernmental stakeholder organizations about the use of such data; and develop related support networks within the region.

A central feature of the project will be a web-based service providing locally-relevant weather projections information based on the best available observed data for the region and outputs from adaptation of leading weather-generator models from the UK's Environment Agency Rainfall and Weather Impacts Generator (EARWIG) and Climate Impacts Programme 09 (UKCIP09) climate scenario systems. The new web service will provide inputs for climate impact studies and training programmes concerning the Caribbean, as well as inform management decisions and policy development regarding specific potential hazards and impacts of climate change.

CARIWIG also will: promote exchange visits to specialist institutions in order to build capacity within the Caribbean on climate-compatible development; foster climate change research within the region; and exchange research findings and best practice among stakeholder institutions.

The inaugural stakeholder consultation for the project will be held from 6-7 February 2013, in Kingston, Jamaica, to discuss how CARIWIG can best serve the three sectors identified as priorities for the project, namely, water, agriculture and coastal resources.

In addition to CCCCC, CARIWIG's implementing partners include the University of West Indies (UWI), the UK's University of East Anglia and Cuba's Institute of Meteorology. [CARIWIG Project Website]