Videos

These are videos available on youtube.com. They are useful for promoting discussion.

• UNDP, GEF, EFJ,  UWI
  • Time to Adapt (Story of 3 Jamaican communities and how they are adapting to climate change)
• Mona GIS, EFJ
  • When the Waters Rise (Documentary of the possible and actual effects of sea-level rise in 3 Caribbean countries)
• CaribSAVE
  • Living Shorelines
  • Caribbean Fish Sanctuaries
  • Climate Change and Tourism
• UNDP, EFJ
  • Voices for Climate Change
• PIOJ, JIS, IDB
  • Climate change and the impact on Jamaican farmers (Short feature about climate change and farmers in Rio Minho and a programme designed to address the challenges.)
• UWI
  • Jamaican farmers and climate change (Short interview with Jamaican farmers describing changes
• UNV, UNDP
  • Share the Story (Jamaica): Climate Change Issues
    (Story of the small rural community of Glengoffe in Jamaica and what they have been doing to sustain their environment against the impact of climate change.)

Presentations

These are power points which you can use to present climate change to a general audience of diverse backgrounds. Speaker notes also provided.

• Climate Change and you: 6 things you should know
• Climate Change and you: 6 things you should know - PDF version

Comic Book

Our Climate is Changing! - Danny and his community face climate change

Posters

The Climate Change is Real poster series covers important general topics related to climate change. The posters can be downloaded and printed.

• Climate Change: What is it? - #1
• Climate Change: What can I do? - #2
• Climate Change: What can I expect? - #3

Fact Sheets

The Climate Change Hot Topics series are one page Fact Sheets which provide a quick look at Climate Change and how it will impact our lives. They can be downloaded and printed.

• Hot Topic 1: Climate Change and Water
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 2: Climate Change, Coastal Zones and Human settlements
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 3: Climate Change and Tourism
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 4: Climate Change and Agriculture
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 5: Climate Change and Health
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 6: Climate Change and Adaptation
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 7: Climate Change and Mitigation
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 8: Climate Change: Rainfall and Temperatures
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 9: Climate Change and Hurricanes
  • Black and White Version
• Hot Topic 10: Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
  • Black and White Version

Brochures

These are short summaries of what we are doing under this project.

• Climate Change: We have to change!
• Climate Change: Let's Change the Way We Treat our Coasts and Beaches!

Educational Activities

These are fun downloadable activities for students to try to teach them a climate change lesson. Each activity is accompanied by a note to the teacher outlining what the climate change concept being taught is and why the activity illustrates the concept. The activities also reinforce other learning skills.
Illustrations provided by Denique Ferguson

4-5 Year Olds
Note: Each activity is provided both in full colour and without colour so that the children can have fun doing the colouring!

• Journey
• Climate Change affects Sea Life Too
• Good Practices

 9-11 Year Olds

• All About Climate Change
  • Cryptogram Game
• Adapting to Climate Change
  • Find-A-Word
• Global Warming Experiment

Other Resources

These other resources are documents that have a lot of information on how climate change will impact Jamaica. They are useful for research students.

• Jamaica’s Initial National Communication
• Jamaica’s Second National Communication
  • Produced by the government by the Government of Jamaica for reporting purposes to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
• State of the Jamaican Climate 2012:Information for Resilience Building
• State of the Jamaican Climate 2012:Information for Resilience Building (Summary for Policy Makers)
  • Provides a snapshot of what we know about Jamaican climate and climate change. Produced by the Planning Institute of Jamaica.
• CARIBSAVE Vulnerability and Risk Atlas for Jamaica
• CARIBSAVE Transformational Change (Sea Level Rise)
• CARIBSAVE Vulnerability and Risk Atlas Negril
  • These documents were produced by CARIBSAVE and examine climate change impacts by sectors.
• Climate Change Impact on Dengue: The Caribbean Experience
  • Produced by the University of the West Indies in conjunction with START and AIACC
• Glimpses of the Future
  • Produced by the Caribbean Modelling Consortium for the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
• Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity
  • Presentation by Professor Dale Webber, Department of Life Sciences, UWI, Mona
• An Assessment of the Economic Impact of Climate Change on the Tourism Sector in Jamaica
• An Assessment of the Economic Impact of Climate Change on the Agriculture Sector in Jamaica
  • Produced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Final Report of the Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Development Project (RIVAMP)
  • Linking Ecosystems to Risk and Vulnerability Reduction: The Case of Jamaica
  • Results of the Pilot Assessment
• EU-GOJ Workshop - A New Approach To Climate: Climate Smart And Ready

Jamaican Climate Change Web Pages

• Meteorological Service
• UNEP
• Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change
• ReCORD - Regional Climate Observed Records Database

Development of this site and some of the resources sponsored by: