About 50 conservationists, managers, decision makers, and journalists
from around the region will be participating in a climate change camp for the
next three days. It’s organized by the World Wildlife Fund to prepare
managers and decision-makers for what they see as the inevitability of climate
change. WWF’s Mesoamerican Reef Scientist Nadia Bood says it is better
to plan now because with climate it isn’t an if – it is a when.
Nadia Bood, Meso-American Reef Scientist - -WWF
“We know that climate change is a real threat and we need to factor
climate change consideration into the way we currently do our work activities,
whether we work for the decision making entities or whether we work for conservation
or management entities. So it is just put it out there, let it be in the minds
of these resource managers so that they could implement it into their activities
and hopefully we will be able to better cope with it, we pretty much increase
our resilience – which is the ability to bounce back from threats in the
face of climate change.”
Michael Case, Research Scientist – WWF
“Climate change is probably one of the world’s biggest problems
right now and the window of opportunity to act on it is closing extremely quick
because of those nations that have already netted all the green house gases
into the atmosphere, we’re experiencing a lot of change and there is a
lot more in the pipeline that is coming our way.”
Nadia Bood,
“Climate change is a real threat upon us and this region has already
been impacted by a number of storm events that resulted in erosion and damage
to infrastructure and also damage to our ecosystems. So we have to be better
prepared and the impacts we’ve seen is nothing compared to what we might
likely see in the future.”
The workshop ends on Friday.
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