Climate Change and the Caribbean

By webmaster, 20 February, 2015

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has prepared this framework document at the request of CARICOM Heads of State participating in the First Congress for the Environmental Charter and Climatic Change, held at Ávila Mountain, Caracas, 11-13 October
2007.
 The strategic vision driving this regional strategy is to lay the ground for a “regional society and economy that is resilient to a changing climate.” The seriousness of the challenge global climate change (GCC) poses to the development prospects of small island and low-lying
costal states is addressed in the Barbados Plan of Action (BPoA), as the first of 14 priority areas for achieving sustainable development.

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