RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, CMC—The Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) is represented on the sixteenth Session of the United Nations Conference to Fight Desertification (UNCCD COP 16), which is specializing in crucial points equivalent to land degradation and drought. The goal is to achieve a consensus on methods to alleviate nationwide, regional, and world challenges and obtain a sustainable future.
The convention ends on December 13, and the organizers mentioned it had introduced collectively delegates from around the globe, together with ministers, diplomats, technocrats, representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and members of civil society.
The worldwide dialogue additionally explores cross-cutting themes equivalent to pressured migration resulting from drought, gender equality, and agricultural land tenure programs, aiming to generate sustainable options.
Regardless of being one of many three main Rio Conventions, the UNCCD struggles want extra visibility, even because it addresses problems with equal significance.
Key subjects below dialogue embody drought resilience, land degradation indicators and efficiency, youth engagement, gender roles and empowerment, and the impression of sand and mud storms, significantly the Saharan mud affecting the Japanese Caribbean area.
Moreover, current stories have indicated that OECS member states are going through dryer spells.
A Local weather Developments and Projections report for the OECS area states that drought impression potential is predicted to rise due to larger evapotranspiration charges caused by larger temperatures.
The report additionally highlights a correlation between average to intense El Niño occasions and impactful droughts within the area. As an illustration, vital droughts throughout 2009-2010 and 2014-2016 coincided with intense El Niño phases.
Delegates hope that the COP will lead to decisive motion on drought, which might be particularly welcome given the projected lower in annual precipitation and enhance in drought situations pushed by local weather change in varied areas of the world.
The OECS can also be represented by Grenada’s Minister for Financial Improvement, Planning, Agriculture and Lands, Forestry, Marine Sources, and Cooperatives, Lennox J. Andrews, St Kitts-Nevis’s Minister for Public Infrastructure, Vitality and Utilities, Home Transport, ICT, and Posts, Konris Maynard, and Alfred Prospere, St. Lucia’s Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Meals Safety, and Rural Improvement.
The St. Lucia-based OECS Fee says Chamberlain Emmanuel, the top of the OECS Environmental Sustainability Division; Mrs. Delamine Andrew-Williams, Senior Technical Specialist on the ILM Challenge; and Mrs. Farzana Yusuf-Leon, Challenge Supervisor and Water Useful resource Specialist, are attending the assembly.
“As this marks the Fee’s inaugural participation within the UNCCD’s COP, the OECS will host three crucial aspect occasions that includes panel discussions and shows aimed toward highlighting the area’s vulnerabilities and the Fee’s contributions to advancing the Conference’s targets.
“Below the Environmental Sustainability Division, the ILM Challenge helps OECS member states in tackling land degradation, enhancing productiveness, and addressing challenges on the nexus of land improvement and watershed sources,” the Fee mentioned.
It mentioned that with bold objectives, ministers and technical delegations from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean are in attendance to affix the worldwide alliance in tackling this subject.