The Caribbean Local weather-Sensible Accelerator (CCSA) marked a historic milestone at this time with the launch of their Local weather Sensible Map, an interactive platform with local weather motion information from over 26 international locations, on the CARICOM Pavilion throughout the United Nations Local weather Change Convention COP28 in Dubai.
Developed in collaboration with donors, Templeton World Charity Basis and suppliers together with PwC Trinidad and Tobago and Vizzuality, the Local weather Sensible Map is a complete instrument designed to empower decision-making for local weather resilience and sustainability throughout the Caribbean. The interactive web-based map was demonstrated on the occasion titled “Empowering Local weather Resilience and Sustainability By way of Know-how: Insights and Improvements.”
Racquel Moses, United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) World Ambassador and CEO of the CCSA emphasised the importance of this groundbreaking initiative. “The launch of the Local weather Sensible Map propels us towards the realisation of our imaginative and prescient for the Caribbean because the world’s first Local weather-Sensible Zone.
With this highly effective instrument, we’re geared up with present information that empowers policymakers, traders, entrepreneurs, mission builders, personal sector leaders, NGOs, and all stakeholders to embark on a journey of impactful decision-making. The knowledge at our fingertips allows us to judiciously allocate assets, making certain they’re deployed with precision, timing, and function throughout 26 nations.
The Local weather Sensible Map emerges as a guiding power, steering us in the direction of strategic local weather motion, each when it comes to adaptation and mitigation. As we navigate this path, it turns into a beacon for guiding local weather finance, strategically channelling investments to areas the place they yield most impression, really making a transformative distinction within the face of local weather challenges. Collectively, we embark on a journey of innovation and resilience, paving the way in which for a brighter and sustainable future for the complete Caribbean area.”
The Local weather Sensible Map identifies particular location parameters, local weather danger and vulnerability, local weather adaptation efforts, local weather readiness, and local weather governance. This user-friendly snapshot gives a well timed and needed local weather answer for the area, providing insights into wants, gaps, and alternatives.
PwC Trinidad and Tobago Accomplice and Consulting Chief, Zia Paton, referencing an IMF publication underscored the significance of the roadmap’s growth noting that, “Whereas the area shouldn’t be a big web contributor to world anthropogenic carbon emissions (lower than 1%), the impression of local weather change is disproportionately extreme with prices from adversarial climate occasions for the area accounting for near 40% of complete world damages. For some international locations, losses nicely exceed the scale of their economic system and vary as much as 225% of GDP for only one occasion. She continued, “The map being developed gives a path to tangible options desperately wanted for driving higher local weather resilience for the area.”
Vizzuality, a key collaborator within the map’s growth, emphasised the significance of representing information in a easy but compelling method. The interactive instrument is designed to be user-friendly for traders, entrepreneurs, mission builders, policymakers, college students, advocates and the Caribbean normal public.
The Local weather Sensible Map is a pivotal pillar of the CCSA’s mandate and shall be constantly up to date. The map has implications for realising different CCSA pillars, together with transitioning to 90% renewable vitality by 2035, defending 30% of Caribbean land and water by 2030, and supporting the event of 1.5% inexperienced jobs in a brand new local weather motion financial sector for the area.
Because the map takes centre stage at COP28, the CCSA invitations world stakeholders to discover this dynamic instrument, fostering collaboration and knowledgeable decision-making for a sustainable and resilient Caribbean.
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