CARIBSAVE Caribbean Climate Neutral Symposium for Nassau
Sunday, 06 Sep, 2009
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The University of Oxford and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) are partners in an initiative crucial to the future of the Caribbean:
The Symposium will address the impacts and the challenges surrounding climate change, the environment, tourism, livelihoods and related sectors throughout the Caribbean region
The CARIBSAVE Country Partners Symposium is set for Nassau Bahamas on 21 September and will focus on major issues including consensus building, vulnerability awareness raising, identification of national and regional needs, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities. Other issues for discussion are:
- the dissemination of the initial Risk Atlas and Vulnerability Profiling phase of CARIBSAVE
- the discussion of core priorities and individual nations’ impacts
- linking support networks across ministries, nations, destinations and regional organisations
- identification of funding for Caribbean nations to address climate change impacts.
The Key Note speaker is expected to be the Right Honourable Hubert Ingraham, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the Secretary-General Elect of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, Mr. Taleb Rifai is expected to be a main speaker at the event as well as the Minister of Tourism from Jamaica.
The audience for the symposium will include Ministers and Permanent
Secretaries of Tourism from the island and coastal nations throughout the Caribbean Basin.
Main results of the Symposium will be action priorities, enhanced understanding of the impacts and challenges of climate change on tourism and the building of consensus on actions and funding for addressing the impacts and challenges of climate change on tourism and related sectors in the nations of the Caribbean Basin.
Funding opportunities for the benefit of individual countries across the Caribbean Basin will be identified, discussed and prioritised in light of the recent CARIBSAVE Donors and Partners Symposium held at the University of Oxford in June/July.
The highly successful Donors and Partners Symposium was attended by delegates from the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, The Nature Conservancy, the Japanese International Development Agency, the United States State Department,the German Development Agency, UNDP, the Association of Caribbean States, the Caribbean Tourism Organization amongst other regional and international partners.
Recently received seed funds from DFID are being used for a range of activities, including: the establishment of protocols and frameworks for the implementation of work on two pre-pilot destination sites, in the Bahamas and Jamaica. This work on the pre-pilot sites is focused on the links between climate science, the physical impacts of climate change and the implications of climate change at stakeholder, national development and sustainable livelihood level across a range of sectors in destinations. The work will form the basis of a region wide phase of Key Objectives of CARIBSAVE, and the development and implementation of practical strategies to address climate change in the region. In addition, the funds are contributing to a series of consensus building and fund raising activities and events, along with capacity
building workshops across the Caribbean region.
The University of Oxford and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) are partners in an initiative crucial to the future of the Caribbean: The CARIBSAVE Partnership. This partnership seeks to address the impacts and challenges surrounding climate change, the environment, tourism, livelihoods and related sectors throughout the Caribbean region.
The project is multi-sectoral, multi-objective and multi-donor in nature and is supported by a large and active network of national, regional and international partners including the ACS, the CTO, UNEP, UNDP, UNWTO, IDB, the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Conservation International (CI), the Rainforest Alliance, nations across the region and representatives of the private and public sectors along with eminent scientists and practitioners from the region and beyond.
The vision for CARIBSAVE is longevity; a sustained approach to address the challenges that climate change presents for the Caribbean’s tourism sector and tourism’s related sectors including biodiversity, water, agriculture, energy, health, infrastructure, and disaster management.
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