Launch of the Carib-Coast monitoring project.
MARIGOT–The Caribbean has joined forces to fight coastal risks related to climate change.
According to a release from France Caraibes Broadcast, the Office of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM) gathered in Guadeloupe to officially launch the Carib-Coast programme in the context of repeated cyclonic crises and rising sea levels.
The Carib-Coast project aims to initiate a Caribbean network for the prevention and crisis management of coastal risks in relation to climate change by pooling, co-constructing and disseminating knowledge, and approaches to coastal risks management in the Caribbean.
The project includes all Caribbean islands with focus on the French Caribbean territories of Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Martin, alongside Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.
It will notably provide a digital marine submersion modelling platform, a coastal erosion monitoring and prevention network based on nature-based solutions and operational risk management tools.
Benefiting from a broad partnership and piloted by BRGM (Office of Geological and Mining Research of Guadeloupe), this project is supported by Association of Caribbean States (ACS) and Caribbean Community Center for Climate Change (5C), among others.
Caribbean partners are: UWI (St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago), MonaGis Institute (UWI Mona campus, Jamaica), Institute of Marine Affairs, Trinidad & Tobago, and Caricoos (Universidad Puerto Rico).
Puerto Rico is participating in instrumentation and hydrodynamic parameters observation network and hydrodynamic digital platform (wind, waves, water level, currents and submersion) and simulating past scenarios, current and future.
It will join the efforts of its Caribbean and European partners for sharing of practices and definition of a common methodological protocol, pooling and strengthening the network of monitored sites and quantification of ecological service rendered in terms of natural protection offered by the environment (littoral vegetation, coral reefs, and mangroves) for erosion.
Caricoos will benefit from definition of a surveillance system and of archiving of storms and their impact, realisation of a website with comments, modelling and associated management indicators, and awareness-raising workshops, skill transfers, and production of didactic documents throughout the Caribbean.
The duration of the programme is 3 years with a total budget of US $3,400,000.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/84953-st-martin-part-of-interreg-carib-coast-monitoring-project
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