Building the Caribbean’s climate resilience to ensure basic survival
By Desmond Brown
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Grenada is among 10 Caribbean countries getting help from the to address water, land and biodiversity resource management as well as climate change.
Under the five-year , countries are implementing national sub-projects at specific sites in order to enhance livelihood opportunities and socio-economic co-benefits for targeted communities from improved ecosystem services functioning.
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IWEco is being co-implemented by United Nations Environment and the U.N. Development Programme and co-executed by , which is the Secretariat to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (the Cartagena Convention).
All OECS countries are signatories to the , a comprehensive, umbrella agreement for the protection and development of the marine environment.
Fresh and coastal water resources management, sustainable land management and sustainable forest management are all challenges to Caribbean SIDS, and more so as the region’s economies face numerous demands and, inevitably, another hurricane season.
Addressing these challenges while improving social and ecological resilience to the impacts of climate change are objectives of the IWEco Project.
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