This morning in Belmopan, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, better known as the 5C's, and the United States Agency for International Development, signed documents to launch a 26 million US dollar climate change adaptation program.
It's a 4-year initiative which the US Government is committing to assist the CARICOM Nations to increase their resistance to extreme meteorological events, such as hurricanes, floods, and droughts. Belize is part of CARICOM, but this country will not benefit from this program. Those nations which will are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Kits, and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname.
We stopped by the launch in Belmopan today, and we spoke to the USAID representative and the Executive Director of the 5C's about its importance:
So, as we told you, Belize isn't benefiting from the program, and today, we asked Dr. Kenrick Leslie why. Here's how he explained it:
In related news, Belize was recently granted 300 thousand US Dollars from the Green Climate Fund, to help Belize prepare for the effects of climate change. Minister Omar Figueroa, met with the Green Climate Fund at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Morocco.
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