Transcript CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE

CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
The Caribbean Community Climate
Change Centre (CCCCC) was designated
by the governments of the Caribbean
Community (CARICOM) to be the centre
of excellence for the development of
policy, technical research and the
mobilization of financial and other
resources to address climate change and
related matters within the community.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
The CCCCC is based in Belize and was
charged with the development of policies,
strategies and measures to address
mitigation and adaptation to climate
change in CARICOM.
The related
technology
transfer
information
initiatives and actions were included in
this mandate.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
The CCCCC through its information
technology activities (website hosting,
etc.) was to be a regional node as part of
the UNFCCC technology information
transfer and public education and
outreach (under Article 6) clearing house
mechanism.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
The CCCCC as a regional node of the
technology information network would
be better able to provide data and
information to its clients. The data and
information provided would be guided by
the needs of the clients. UNFCCC and
other support will be pursued to help us
in the process.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
The CCCCC would focus its attention
more on the content of the network
rather than on the technology used in
operating the network. The network will
proactively try to deliver information to
clients, especially national governments,
leading to policy changes in preparing
the region to effectively adapt to CC.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 The CPACC regional project, based in
Barbados, developed and populated a website
on climate change for and to support
practitioners and clients within the public and
private sectors of the CARICOM. The website
was leased/rented from and hosted by a private
company in Barbados. The follow-on project
Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change
(MACC) was to inherit the website and
associated resources to be used as part of its
support for the CCCCC.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 MACC, a GEF funded project, was being
executed by the CARICOM Secretariat (CCS)
with the World Bank (WB) as implementing
agency, was based in the CCCCC in Belize.
 The IT and website functions of the MACC
project were under its Public Education and
Outreach component and was to build on and
implement the regional and national PEO
strategies developed under the CPACC.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
The website and its functions continued
to be physically managed and operated
from Barbados instead of at the CCCCC
in Belize. The MACC and CCCCC roles
were to be that of supplying data and
information for uploading in Barbados.
This was unacceptable the MACC and
the CCCCC as control over quality and
administration was lost.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 The technological and qualitative
transformation of the site to enable it to fulfill
the role of a regional node in line with the
UNFCCC SBSTA guidelines was not being
achieved within the existing framework. It was
not able to provide access to and exchange of
climate sensitive information and technologies
to climate change practitioners and clients
within and outside the CARICOM.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 Sometime late in 2005 to early 2006 it was
reported that the website had “crashed” and all
the information and data was lost. It was not
clear what happened to the backups but
attempts to revive and re-populate the site
seemed beset by technical problems. The site
had not been revived up to August 2006 when
the mid-term review of the project was
conducted.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 The WB and the CCS conducted the mid-term
review of the MACC and both agreed to
transfer the executing agency function for the
MACC project from the CCS to the CCCCC.
The transition process is about to be finalized
following agreement from all the participating
governments of the CARICOM. The executing
agency role of the CCCCC is in line with that
being performed for other CC related projects
supported by the WB and other development
partners.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 The MACC/CCCCC has established a new
website, www.caribbeanclimate.bz, which came
on line in February 2007. The rights and
ownership of the original site name,
www.caribbeanclimate.org, belongs to the
private company and was not available to the
CCCCC. The new site is owned and located
within the CCCCC thus allowing for
administrative, technical and editorial control.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
The CCCCC will develop and manage
the site to perform the functions of a
regional node in the UNFCCC network
by providing and exchanging climate
friendly data and information to and with
the Caribbean professionals,
practitioners and the public-at-large as
well as cooperators and partners beyond
the Caribbean boundaries.
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
The MACC/CCCCC works with a
number of technical partners and will
establish linkages to exchange and
disseminate data and information from
and with them
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 Some of the technical partners
generating information and data for the
MACC/CCCCC include NOAA, Center
for Marine Sciences (UWI), Caribbean
Emergency Disaster Response Agency,
Climate Studies Group (UWI),
Department of Survey and Land
Information (UWI), CERMES (UWI)…
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 MACC/CCCCC will provide access to
data and information to our clients:
National governments though their NFPs,
ministries and departments, etc.
NGOs and private sector agencies
Knowledge based institutions
The public-at-large and outside agencies
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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTRE (CCCCC)
Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technology
Information Centres
 The site is now being re-populated with data
and information retrieved physically from
individuals and organizations in the countries
associated with the previous projects and
activities. Towards this end the CCCCC has
commenced initiatives aimed at re-establishing
linkages with the UNFCCC process that would
allow it to access the financial resources that
were allocated but never accessed to carry out
this function.
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