Professor Tannecia Stephenson, head of the Physics Department at The University of the West Indies, Mona, says Jamaica will have to increase climate-mitigation and adaptation efforts to address the effects of climate change.

She says this has become important as climate models project that the country will experience more intense storms and rainfall, increased temperatures and rising sea levels.

“The response to climate change is everybody’s business; that is a message to all – private sector, public sector, communities, schools and institutions,” she said, noting that the emission of greenhouse gases has to be reduced.

Stephenson was addressing a session of the recently concluded Jamaica 60 Diaspora Conference on climate change and diaspora engagement.

Claudine Allen (left), general manager of the JN Foundation and member ombudsman at The Jamaica National Group; and Professor Tannecia Stephenson, head of the Physics Department at The University of the West Indies, Mona, participate in the recently concluded Jamaica 60 Diaspora Conference on climate change and diaspora engagement.