BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – No less than 4 Caribbean nations are to learn from a grant offered by the FirstCaribbean Worldwide ComTrust Basis and the Caribbean Disaster Threat Insurance coverage Facility (CCRIF SPC) that can assist improve rainfall monitoring techniques and catastrophe preparedness within the Caribbean.
The US$80,000 funds can even be used to print and disseminate copies of the publication “Hazards, Disasters, and Local weather Change,” developed for youngsters ages eight to 12.
The grant of US$75,000 can be used to allow at the very least 4 Caribbean nations to enhance their climate monitoring networks by including automated climate techniques and different tools to their current networks.
These new automated climate techniques (AWSs) will improve these nations’ early warning techniques and their capability to raised put together for hydro-meteorological occasions equivalent to hurricanes and extreme rainfall occasions all year long.
The donation from the ComTrust Basis will assist an current initiative at the moment being carried out by CCRIF that focuses on offering much-needed help to its member governments to boost their AWS networks.
Up to now, CCRIF has assisted Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Cayman Islands, offering them with roughly US$250,000 in assist to enhance and increase their rainfall information assortment and measurement techniques.
These assets from the ComTrust Basis will assist 4 extra nations in increasing their rainfall monitoring networks. CCRIF will match these assets from ComTrust to assist 4 different nations within the area.
By the center of 2024, 12 nations within the Caribbean could have extra AWSs and enhanced rainfall measuring networks, which is able to assist governments to raised put together their populations within the face of the growing frequency and depth of hydro-meteorological hazards.
In 2020, CCRIF labored with the Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) to undertake a situational evaluation to find out if there have been current gaps within the rainfall measuring networks of its member governments and the extent of those gaps.
“The situational evaluation, which assessed the rainfall measuring community of 19 of CCRIF member governments, indicated that solely 5 Caribbean nations have over 70 % of the beneficial stage of AWS protection,” mentioned CCRIF’s chief govt officer, Isaac Anthony.
“The minimal protection was 10 % of optimum protection, the utmost was 90 %, with a median of 40 % throughout the nations. Having reviewed the report, Anthony mentioned that the CCRIF board determined to offer assist beneath its Technical Help Programme to member nations within the area to strengthen their community of automated climate stations (AWSs).
The chief govt officer of CIBC FirstCaribbean, Mark St. Hill, mentioned the financial institution is dedicated to sustaining sturdy environmental requirements and conducting environmentally and socially accountable actions that contribute to long-term worth for shoppers, staff, communities, and shareholders.
“Local weather change has been participating our area for a while, and our financial institution has established itself as a number one monetary associate for stakeholders searching for to handle the difficulty. We actively search to assist the Caribbean area’s transition to a low-carbon economic system and advancing of sustainability and local weather resiliency initiatives within the territories through which we function.”
The “Hazards, Disasters and Local weather Change” booklet permits kids to study concerning the hazards that have an effect on the Caribbean.
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