Jamaica is slated to launch a $6 million climate change resilience
project in the greater Kingston metropolitan area, the government
announced this week.
The project is called “Building Climate Resilience of Urban Systems
through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in LAC.” The latter refers to
Latin America and the Caribbean, where Jamaica was one of three
countries selected by the United Nations Environment Programme to launch
such a project.
The objective of the project is to “increase the climate change
resilience of vulnerable urban communities,” according to the
government.
Jamaica will be launching the project alongside El Salvador and Mexico.
“[We] must begin to think and plan in concrete ways in order to
integrate climate considerations in all relevant plans and projects, to
deal with rising temperatures, rising seas, deadlier disasters, and
changing economic circumstances,” said Jamaica Environment Minister
Robert Pickersgill. “This presents new challenges and opportunities to
city planners, environmental planners, the construction sector and to
civil society. These are very practical matters – where to build, how to
build, and the role that ecosystem services can play – in order to
develop and prosper within the new climate reality.”
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