International climate change experts say that 98 percent of the world's mountain glaciers are melting, and that will push sea levels three feet higher in 100 years. They predict that eventually rising seas will flood the low lands of virtually every country of the world. That's the global reality and locally, representatives of six coastal communities along with other local and regional stakeholders in climate change are in a 2 day workshop discussing the consequences of climate change. It's an attempt to bring the message of climate change into the mainstream and project coordinator Jennifer Tipple explains that they are looking to educate those most at risk.
Jennifer Tipple,
"This workshop like I said is the first step in this entire process so a lot of this workshop is just getting together some of the key people that can make this happen and educating them now. That is what we're doing here now which is having a few presentation just the general times on climate change and how it affects the country and the Caribbean and so it's a lot of preparations. And from there, we expect these groups to go back and to work with each other to further actually do the action, to enroll the plans that they developed here at this workshop. We want community groups to have supports and resource they need to help themselves. Once they've themselves as communities at risk, we want them to have the resources they need to implement an action plan to become sustainable communities and to encourage this throughout their communities so essentially the communities are helping themselves and each other."
The workshop concludes tomorrow evening.
