Environment Minister Warns on Risk of Climate Change for Jamaica

Kingston, Aug 5 (Prensa Latina) Environment Minister of Jamaica, Robert Pickersgill, warned on the negative consequences of climate change for the Caribbean island, reported today the official news agency JIS.

During the presentation of a video on the subject, the official explained that it make a great impact on health, natural resources, infrastructure as well as access to water and food security.

In front of this situation, he called for a campaign to raise public awareness among the public since he sadi that it is a matter of all Jamaicans.

The impact of climate change will hamper the government's efforts to pay down the debt, while increasing the economic cost, he predicted.

Caribbean experts met last months in St. Lucia to discuss how to deal with this situation.

History teaches us that a single hurricane can destroy years of economic growth, from one day to the other and leave lasting scars, not only in the physical landscape, but also in the national psyche, emphasized the minister of science, Energy and Technology of Saint Lucia, James Fletcher.

Given the reluctance of many nations of the so-called first world to tackle the problem, we are under pressure because the rising of the sea levels, higher temperatures, changes in raining and more intense hurricanes, he expressed.