Climate change in the Caribbean - 2019 workshop
Strengthening the science to services interface
Date: 28-29 November 2019
Location: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Funded by: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) programme
Hosted by: Met Office, WMO CREWS, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH)
Workshop Objectives:
1. Raise awareness of risks to the Caribbean arising from climate change, utilising the latest climate science.
2. Identify available climate services for the Caribbean on long-term climate change timescales.
3. Tailor a new Caribbean Sea level rise tool to better inform future decision-making
4. Co-develop good practice for communicating climate risk at a national scale.
Workshop documentation
Workshop agenda
Climate Change in the Caribbean
Strengthening the science to services interface
Coastal engineering in the Caribbean - the need for climate projections
Communicating Climate by Jane Strachan
Climate change overview by Richard Jones
Communicating long term climate information
The risk framework, key risks and related climate hazards by Richard Jones