CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development, Dr. Edward Greene, has said that climate change and its impact on the region is a very important issue.To this end, the Community is working to host a special regional meeting on climate change in February next year.According to him, the Community is in the process of refining a climate change strategic framework for the region.He noted that the framework will attempt to tackle issues of global warming and the related issues of energy,Cheap Jerseys From China, especially fossil fuels, as well as the related issues of the environment and natural disasters.He contends that part of the strategy for reducing the ill effects of climate change is to form partnerships with the global partners and try to influence the global agenda; because, in fact, we are the beneficiaries of the negative effects of the global trends.Dr. Greene asserted that climate change is a driver of the entire aspect of sustainable development.“It is part and parcel of those things that form sustainable development, so putting a strategic plan together is very important, because what it does is to identify the major institutions that are involved in the strategies for reducing the effects of climate change, and particularly global warming, dealing with the energy issues and especially with the impacts on the economic sectors and on human development in particular.”He added that,China NFL Jerseys, currently, the strategy is being discussed throughout the region,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and it is perceived that by the end of January to February they will put forward a specific agenda for the region for climate change.Dr. Greene noted that there is a Climate Change Centre for the Caribbean in Belize, which has been doing a lot of work on some of the major issues as they affect the Caribbean.“A lot of the problems of climate change are not necessarily due to anything that we are doing in the Caribbean or not doing. It really is a function of what is happening globally, and with the impact on this region.”He noted that consultations are ongoing, and it is known that the situation needs to be treated with urgency.What is very clear, Dr. Greene added,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, is that despite the global financial crisis, climate change has not taken to the back burner.According to him,China NFL Jerseys, climate change itself is driving some of the ill effects that we are experiencing with the financial crisis; one of them is energy, he added.He noted that, in this region, with the sunshine, the Caribbean’s dependence on energy would have to be rethought. “Maybe we have to deal more with solar energy and biofuels,China Jerseys, and I think how we treat our forest, how we deal with the environmental effects of what we call our trenches, our waterways…we have to be sure that we protect those.”Dr. Greene cited the importance of education schools and youth in these issues.He stated that there was a conference here on children. It showed the ill effects of climate change on early childhood development.“We really can’t afford that, because it will affect our human resources,” Dr Greene asserted.