The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre Strategic & Implementation Plan 2021-2025 : empowering people to act on climate change

Abstract

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre’s (CCCCC) Strategic and Implementation Plan 2021-2025, Empowering People to Act on Climate Change1 provides direction and focuses the efforts of the CCCCC on how to contribute to a Caribbean region that is better capable to cope with the adverse effects of climate change and contribute in relevant proportion, to reduce and avoid GHG emissions. The Strategic and Implementation Plan (SIP) 2021-2025 reflects the results of a participatory process, involving the Centre’s staff, Executive Management Team, and its Board of Governors; CARICOM and selected regional institutions; regional and international development agencies; climate change funding partners and other stakeholders. Countries in the Caribbean region are experiencing, first- hand, the effects of climate change, with documented economic, social and environmental impacts at the national, community and ecosystem levels. Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including Caribbean SIDS, are recognized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as countries most vulnerable to climate change. The region is heavily impacted by hurricanes, flooding and droughts, rising sea levels which cause loss of beaches that are critically important to the tourism sector.