Published 24 April 2024
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
✨The Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment, Climate Action, and Constituency Empowerment is being represented at the Ministry of Tourism’s Tourism Climate Action Workshop by the Public Sector Investment Planning, Parks & Beaches Unit, Department of Urban Resilience and Development and the Climate Action Unit. This workshop takes place on 23-24 April 2024 at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Auditorium.
🌿It is being facilitated by Sustainable Travel International, an international organization dedicated to protecting our planet’s most vulnerable destinations and transforming tourism’s impact on nature & people.
🌿The primary rhetoric centered around climate action being critical to the protection of St Kitts as a tourism destination.
Did you know?
🌿It takes 16 tree seedlings over 10 years or 1.2 acres of mature forest to capture 1 metric ton of carbon. If 1 person/visitor, on average, produces 2.3 metric ton over 1 month, can you see the imbalance?
How does this translate?
🌿Essentially, the impacts of climate change in St Kitts and Nevis will affect habitats and speed up biodiversity loss, impact food security/agriculture negatively, and an increased risk for hurricanes and unstable weather.
This isn’t simply a talk shop.
🌿St Kitts as a destination, hopes to join the rest of the region in signing the Glasgow Declaration, a component of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, focuses on speeding up climate action in the tourism industry, at a tourism side-event at the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)-4 in Antigua in May 2024.
