Caribbean hurricane season ‘will be different this time’
He is a student at
“I was extremely horrified to hear those winds howling like wolves in the sky and houses flying away and people dying.”
Although fearful of the dangers that the 2018 hurricane eason could bring, he says he “would like to be more ready this time: prepare for the season, stock up on food, repair houses."
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The rebuilding has not just been taking place in the physical sense, but also in terms of preparing teachers and students to respond appropriately during a natural disaster like a hurricane.
Children who were evacuated from
Children evacuated from
"I want to learn how to prepare for a hurricane and what we do after a hurricane. It is my responsibility to help as a member of the
Hurricane readiness
The people of
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The eastern
As well as hurricanes, inhabitants face threats such as floods and volcanoes, with regular annual losses from disasters estimated at
Following the back-to-back batterings from Irma and Maria,
To reach this goal, the Dominican Government created a task-force to determine best practice across every sector and enforce new disaster mitigation measures throughout the island.
The
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In addition, the UNDP looked at existing building standards and, where necessary, reviewed them and raised them to bolster resilience. The aim is to enable
However, one of the big fears for the coming years, according to
For the
As more and more countries are affected, and the associated costs, human and financial, continue to rise the international community is moving towards meaningful action.
In 2015, the Paris Agreement was signed, committing all countries to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change. And, because reducing carbon emissions is no longer enough to halt climate change, States agreed to a “Global Adaptation Goal”, strengthening the ability of the most vulnerable countries to deal with its effects.
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One of the crueller ironies of climate change is that, whilst they contribute less than 1 per cent to total greenhouse gas emissions, the Small Island Developing States tend to suffer disproportionately from its effects: just weeks after the hurricanes devastated his nation, Dominican Prime Minister,
“The stars have fallen, Eden is broken… We as a country, and as a region, did not start this war against nature. We did not provoke it. The war has come to us!”
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