Belize is the headquarters for the Caribbean Climate Change Center and now technicians have committed to install sea level monitoring equipment in Belize. Climate change experts say that a rise in sea levels is one of the greatest risks associated with climate change and its underscored in countries like Belize that have vast coastlines. Keith Miller of the University of the West Indies explains how the information gathered will be useful to develop sound land use practices.
Keith Miller, UWI
“It is important for a local economy to find means of adaptations if the sea is rising, if the sea is sinking relative to the land mass when it is going to affect people’s livelihoods, people’s homes, the way in which we grow produce, farm, agriculture. Water intrusion into agriculture lands is going to be the first signs of any sea level change, it is going to impact on the way of which we make use of the lands.”
Miller says it will take about 10 years to gather a useful body of information.
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