KINGSTON, Jamaica--Senior officers from the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) are meeting in Jamaica with counterparts from the German Development Bank KfW and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for discussions on a regional Coastal Protection for Climate Change Adaptation (CPCCA) project being implemented in four Caribbean states.
The teams will be on the island between May 8 and 17 to have talks with grantees and partner organisations, and to visit the four sites that have been approved for funding support under the project for the local adaptation measures (LAMs) aimed at improving the ability of vulnerable communities to withstand the impacts of climate change.
The CPCCA project is being implemented by the CCCCC – also called the 5Cs – with technical support from IUCN and with 12.9 million euros in grant funding from the KfW. It seeks to minimise the adverse impacts from climate change by restoring the protective services offered by natural eco-systems like coastal mangrove forests and coral reefs in some areas while restoring and building man-made structures such as groynes and revetments in others.
The LAMs projects in Jamaica are being managed by a mix of non-governmental and government institutions.
The Jamaican project areas of the Portland Bight and Negril Environmental Protected Areas, East Portland Fish Sanctuary and the Closed Harbour also called “Dump-up” Beach in Montego Bay are four of the 16 areas being targeted in the Caribbean. The other 12 projects are being rolled out in Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. ~ Curaçao Chronicle ~
