Last night we told you about the Regional Climate Change workshop. The focus is to get media professionals to report more Climate Change stories. In turn, you the public will get a better understanding of how Climate Change affects our daily lives and as an extension of that - the economy. Now, last night, we listed a few tips you can follow that can help reduce strains on the environment. But Senior Project Development Specialist Keith Nichols admits that these environmentally friendly approaches won't stop Climate Change but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything. Nichols gave us more context on this point.
Keith Nichols, Senior Project Development Specialist, CCCCC
"Normally when we speak about Climate Change we refer to things like sea level rise, ocean acidification, and global warming yeah, we are not going to see that change tomorrow or next year."
"It is the daily, what we call the extreme weather events as a consequence of climate vulnerability these are the issues we have got to deal with so when we speak of flooding in the farms during the wet season and you can't harvest cane because it is just too wet for months or we have lost cattle because they are stuck in flooded fields and end up with ox or hoof related disease because they can't get out of the water and the bacteria sets in and creates problems , when we talk crop cycles are changing the seasons are changing so how can we plan for our economies if we don't take those factors into consideration and plan for those under the research that is necessary. So in Belize we have seen the change, we have experienced the changes, we know about coral bleaching, but there is a lot they can do because we ourselves are contributing to the impact on, that are felt by the natural physical environment."
"If we were to stop emissions, cease emissions today, at this very moment no more carbon dioxide, no more nitrous oxide, no more methane gas in the atmosphere, we curtail those emissions to zero emissions today, the world will keep warming for a long while, for decades before it stabilizes and comes back down to normal so we already locked ourselves in a pattern of warming and changing that we can't reverse."
Courtney Weatherburne, 7News
"So there is no cure, there is no quick fix, so it is just about managing the effects."
Keith Nichols, Senior Project Development Specialist, CCCCC
"Absolutely, there is no quick fix and because we are on the receiving end of all this, ours is a bigger challenge, we have to find the resources to adapt."
The workshop ended today. 9 Caribbean countries were represented at this workshop.
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