Overall Objectives of the Workshop

To provide participants with:

• The knowledge and capacity to use climate models and their outputs to determine more precisely climate change impacts on the agriculture, water, coastal (fisheries, tourism) and health sectors in the Caribbean Region
• The know-how of using the outputs from climate models with appropriate decision tools, so that the identified sectors can better adapt and/or mitigate climate change.

Some topics that will be covered:

• Greenhouse Gases
• Global Warming and Environmental Change
• Climate Scenarios and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP’s)
• Climate Change Projections
• Statistical and Dynamic Downscaling
• Integrated Assessments
• Risk and Vulnerability Analysis
• Methods in Adaptation
• Methods in Mitigation
• Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
• Costing Climate Change and Adaptation
• Communicating Climate Change