With the continent holding enough ice to raise sea levels by many metres if it was to melt, polar scientists are scrambling for answers. For the full article click here.
Barbadian climate activist and UNICEF Youth Advocate Ashley Lashley spoke with NowThis Earth at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 14 and had a message for young people who don’t feel like enough is being done about the climate crisis: ‘United we stand, divided we fall.’ Lashley said that today’s leaders won’t be tomorrow’s leaders and that the youth need to continue pushing the message that the future must be protected.
The Blue Economy Section of the Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification in collaboration with the Stimson Center's Environmental Security Program and the Commonwealth Secretariat's Commonwealth Blue Charter programme have completed a rapid assessment of climate and ocean risks and options to address these risks for the southern and western urban coastal corridor of Barbados. Additional information can be found in the articles linked below:
The Director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit recently sat down with a journalist from the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network to discuss how climate change will likely impact the environments and population of Barbados. Please click here to view the article. The interview videos can also be viewed using the following links:
Director of the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU) Dr. Leo Brewster encourages all Barbadians to read the draft updated Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Plan. The Plan takes the form of two volumes: the Barbados Policy Framework and the Barbados ICZM Plan.
The draft updated Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Plan is centre stage this month as the Public Enquiry for stakeholders and the wider public to share their views on the Plan continues.
Barbados’ coastline is vital to the lives of all Barbadians. Not just now but for our future. It provides us with food as well as places to relax, live, and play. It also enhances the island’s economic development through tourism, fishing, and recreational business-related activities.
Our coastline, however, is becoming more vulnerable because of the impact of climate change. If we do little or nothing to combat this it will be more negatively impacted by coastal flooding, erosion, cliff collapse and more.
