Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin CARIBSAVE: A SECTORAL APPROACH TO VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE A SECTORAL APPROACH TO VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION CARIBSAVE Stakeholders Workshop 2 November 2009 2 November 2009 Bay Gardens Inn, St Lucia Dr. MURRAY C. SIMPSON Co-Director and CEO CARIBSAVE Partnership Senior Research Associate Caribbean Climate Change, Tourism & Livelihoods: Water, Energy, Agriculture, Health, Biodiversity, Infrastructure and Settlement, Comprehensive Disaster Management Senior Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
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Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
CARIBSAVE: A SECTORAL APPROACH TO VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCEA SECTORAL APPROACH TO VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE
Senior Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
The Presentation
• Geographic Scope of CARIBSAVE• Geographic Scope of CARIBSAVE• Vulnerability Hotspots, Impacts and
Key Issues Key Issues • Impacts for Economic Development• Tourism the Contributor• Tourism the Contributor• The CARIBSAVE Partnership• CARIBSAVE Objectives • CARIBSAVE Objectives • The Path to Solutions
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean BasinSECTORAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE DESTINATIONS & CLIMATE CHANGE
Agric lt re
Water Transport
S t i bl
Agriculture Climate
SustainableCaribbean Tourism
InfrastructureEconomic
Development Tourism Destinations
Natural Waste
Health
Resources
Energy
Waste Management
Security
Caribbean Climate Change, Tourism & Livelihoods: Water, Energy, Agriculture, Health, Biodiversity, Infrastructure and Settlement, Comprehensive Disaster Management Simpson et al 2008a
Energy Security
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
Major Impacts: Climate Change on Caribbean Tourism SectorMajor Impacts: Climate Change on Caribbean Tourism Sector• Crucial interdependence: Tourism and Climate… • - national economy, livelihoods, development, environment
Gradual and Extreme• Gradual and Extreme• Regulatory policy, voluntary initiatives and costs
• Coastal Emphasis• Coastal Emphasis• Air temperature and Sea Surface temperature• Sea level rise • Coastal erosion• Coastal erosion• Changes in levels of precipitation• Extreme events: increase in intensity and frequency, • - e.g. drought, flood, storm surge, (hurricane)e.g. drought, flood, storm surge, (hurricane)• Seasonality shifts• Biodiversity Loss and Change / Loss of Destination Aesthetics• Infrastructure and settlement destruction
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
Economic Risks of Climate Change‘Our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of‘Our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economicto those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century.’
‘Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity t th t t f th 21st t F il t t thiat the start of the 21st century. Failure to meet this
challenge raises the spectre of unprecedented reversals in human development.’
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
Caribbean Community Climate Change CentreUniversity of Oxford Association of Caribbean StatesCaribbean Tourism OrganizationCaribbean Tourism Organization
• Multi-Sector• Multi Objective• Multi-Objective• Multi- Donor• USD $35 MillionUSD $35 Million• Links and Compliments ACS – STZC• Long-Term Approach Established - Whole
R iRegion• PRACTICAL STRATEGIES• Inclusive and Critical Mass
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
• CARIBSAVE WILL: In the face of climate change,
...strengthen, protect and enhance the g , plivelihoods, environments and economies of Caribbean nations, communities and sectoral stakeholderscommunities and sectoral stakeholders....who rely directly and indirectly on the Caribbean tourism industry, and to strengthen, protect and enhance the natural and built assets, and sectors on which the industry is basedwhich the industry is based
• The CARIBSAVE Partnership has Seven (7) Principal • The CARIBSAVE Partnership has Seven (7) Principal Objectives ...
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
CARIBSAVE OBJECTIVES4 T i f d d l ti l d 4. To inform and develop national and
regional policy by conducting socio-economic analyses of the costs and riskseconomic analyses of the costs and risksof climate change adaptation and mitigation in the Caribbean tourism sector.
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
CARIBSAVE OBJECTIVES5 T d l i l t d it 5. To develop, implement and monitor
practical adaptation and mitigation strategies and policies for tourism and strategies and policies for tourism and related sectors identified in Objective 3; i.e. implement cross-ministerial policies and p pcommunity-based adaptation strategies to enable governments and communities to ff ti l dd th h ll f li t effectively address the challenges of climate
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
CARIBSAVE OBJECTIVES6 T t th t iti f th C ibb 6. To support the transition of the Caribbean
region’s tourism sector to a low carbon economy and to create the world’s first economy and to create the world s first ‘Carbon Neutral’ tourism region.
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
CARIBSAVE OBJECTIVES7 T b ild it d t f kill 7. To build capacity and transfer skills
through the design and implementation of sectoral based initiatives and seminars sectoral based initiatives and seminars including community outreach, institutional strengthening and private g g psector engagement.
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
FundingFundingBUDGET $35 Million (Initial approx 5 Years)
Seed Funding Stage (1 & 1a)1. UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)2. Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO2. Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO3. UK Department for International Development (DFID)4. World Bank5 IDB 5. IDB
Second Phase – Commence: Risk Atlas, Most VulnerableCa bon Ne t alit Ene g EfficiencCarbon Neutrality, Energy Efficiency
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
Phase 1 and 1a:Phase 1 and 1a: Pilots and Copenhagen
• Eleuthera, The Bahamas• Montego Bay, JamaicaMontego Bay, Jamaica• Negril, Jamaica• Western Barbados Barbados• Western Barbados, Barbados• Rodney Bay/Pigeon Causeway
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
Phase 2; Country Profiles• The Bahamas• The Bahamas• Jamaica• Barbados• Barbados• St Lucia• Dominican Republic• Dominican Republic• Anguilla • St Kitts• St Kitts• Grenada• Suriname
Protecting and enhancing the livelihoods, environments and economies of the Caribbean Basin
• Cross sectoral Inter ministerial • Cross-sectoral - Inter-ministerial, • Regional and International • Cooperation and Collaboration is required• Cooperation and Collaboration is required