Date: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017.
Time: 09:00 – 10:30 am (time in Costa Rica)
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Agenda
Introduction. Ana María Majano. Coordinator of the LEDS LAC Secretariat. Tropical Agronomic Center for Research and Higher Education (CATIE).
Centro Clima: the climate information system for the countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA). Ana Deisy López. Coordinator of the Adaptation Component, USAID’s Regional Climate Change Program, CATIE. | Download presentation
Coffee Cloud: climate information to reduce the vulnerability of the coffee sector. Mario Chocooj. Research and Technical Assistance, National Coffee Association (ANACAFE) Guatemala. | Download presentation
ClimaPesca: supporting climate-smart fishing. Jorge López. Clima Pesca technical expert, Central American Fisheries and Aquaculture Organization (OSPESCA). | Download presentation
About the webinar
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that Central America is the most vulnerable hot spot in the world’s tropical regions, since it is highly sensitive to changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and to increases in intensity and recurrence of extreme hydrometeorological events that are derived from, or enhanced by, climate change.
To deal with the negative effects of this process, rapid and effective actions based on climate information of quality adapted to the needs of the users are necessary. For this reason, Regional Committee on Hydraulic Resources (CRRH), one of the Technical Secretariats of the Central American Integration System, is working in collaboration with several institutional partners and the support of USAID’s Regional Climate Change Program, in the development of Centro Clima, the first regional climate information system for Central America and the Dominican Republic.
This webinar will present Centro Clima and two of its tools for specific sectors: coffee and fishing. The webinar will be held in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Secretariat of the LEDS LAC Platform: info@ledslac.org
About the panelists
She currently works as a Climate Change Adaptation Specialist for USAID’s Regional Climate Change Program with CATIE. She has coordinated the design activities of the Regional Climatic Information System Centro Clima and its tools, with the partners of the Program Consortium and with the user partners. She worked as Director of the Environmental Observatory of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of El Salvador, coordinating the monitoring, investigation and alert activities for hydrometeorological, climatic and geological threats. She is a Civil Engineer with a Masters in Water Resources and specialization in Mathematical Modeling for flood control in Denmark and territorial planning of floodplains in Italy.Researcher at the Center for Research in Coffee. He is currently responsible for coordinating and directing the Rust Monitoring and Surveillance System together with a team of research assistants from the Association. He has served as a regional researcher and validator, serving two coffee-growing regions of Guatemala. He has carried out validation and research on topics such as: Density of sowing, fertilization and amendments, seedling management, cup quality studies of different varieties of coffee and climate change.Editor of Clima Pesca, Information Note week, distributed by OSPESCA-SICA from August / 2014. Coordinator of the OSPESCA-SICA Regional Working Group on Climate Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Additional Resources
Centro Clima is a space for communication and liaison between generators of climate information and users.
It is a regional portal containing unified climate information, which allows inputs to be better adapted to climate variability and improved productivity, competitiveness and quality of life.Clima Pesca is an initiative of the Central American Fisheries and Aquaculture Organizatio (OSPESCA) and aims to raise awareness and visibilize the impacts of the climate in the sector, as well as develop adaptation efforts to increase production and ensure food security, despite climate change and variability.