Climate
WORLD | Jul 3, 2023
Reading Time: 4 minutes SINGAPORE (Reuters) The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious…
Reading Time: 2 minutes At least 20 countries from Central America and the Caribbean are calling on the international financial and development institutions “to prioritise the provision of funds and resources” to support the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes GENEVA (Reuters) Europe’s summer last year was the hottest on record and caused thousands of deaths, a joint report by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and European Union (EU) scientists confirmed,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Barbados-based Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) has said that with El Niño conditions expected this year, the coral bleaching outlook for the Caribbean is not positive. In…
Reading Time: < 1 minute For the first time in eight years, some parts of eastern Jamaica are experiencing a hydrological drought that has resulted in low water levels in rivers, streams, and reservoirs. Matthew…
Reading Time: 4 minutes By most indications, it is increasingly likely that an El Niño will emerge in the next few months. What is El Niño? El Niño is the term used to refer…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Professor Jim Skea, the UK’s candidate for chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is in Jamaica this week. The IPCC is the United Nations (UN) body responsible…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is now an accredited agency by the Green Climate Fund. As an accredited agency, JSIF can now access up to US$50 million for climate…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, has said, in real ways, Jamaica understands the impact of climate change and that more financing needs to be made available to developing countries,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the the international community “to understand that an effective solidarity with Haiti is not only a matter of generosity, it’s essentially a…
Reading Time: 2 minutes United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres is appealing to the member of states to act swiftly to enact the Loss and Damage Fund that seeks to assist countries impacted by…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Minister of Science, Energy and Technology (MSET), Daryl Vaz says that the Ministry is “working on the development of a real time sensory network that will form part of a…