Empowering communities to adapt to climate change

­Adaption to climate change focuses on empowering communities to use their own knowledge and decision-making process, to take action strengthen to their resilience to climate change, through mitigation and adaption programmes in St Vincent and the Grenadines, to reduce the vulnerability of local communities exposed to climate change.{{more}}

JEMS Progressive Community Organization (JEMS), as part of its continuing work on climate change, held a very successful community organizations networking strategy session at the Red Cross Headquarters, Kingstown on Thursday, 21st April, 2016. This was done to plan and organize a collaborative approach to climate change, building the community link and expanding the network of eight (8) represented community organizations, working as a unit to tackle the challenges of climate change, the world’s primary environmental threat today.

The meeting was addressed by Andrea Simmons, director of JEMS and Otis Joslyn, technical co-ordinator of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, based in Belize.

The community network will meet in mid-May to assess the progress of the initiative on climate change mitigation on a community level in St Vincent and the Grenadines.