PPT-Climate Change and Health: Focus in Latin America and the Caribbean

Dr Agnes Soares Regional Advisor SDE PAHOWHO CLIMATE AND HEALTH SUMMIT ALONG SIDE THE 20 TH CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES LIMA PERU 6 TH DECEMBER 2014 1 Regional Plan of Action on Climate Change. Catherine . Thomasson, MD . 9/20/15. Germany-. Energiewende. 25% energy from renewables 2013. >50% renewable last summer. High demand for solar-reduced production costs. 3% reduction in CO2 despite since 2011 despite closing 8 nuclear reactors. With particular reference. to. THE CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA. Major General (retd). Joseph G Singh. (GUYANA). IES - Climate Change & . Security. at Copenhagen - II. The Contribution of the Global Security Community to Success. Dr. Christopher . Tufton. Hon. Minister of Health, Jamaica. NCDs : Burden in The Caribbean. 3 out of 4 people die from an NCD. NCDs: Caribbean Highest Premature Mortality. Premature Mortality:. (WB PRWP 7795). Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán (World Bank). Luis-Felipe López-Calva (World Bank). Nora Lustig (Tulane University). Daniel Valderrama (Georgetown University). IEA 18. th. World Congress. Mexico!. Mexico is located on the south western part of the United States border.. The area of Mexico is 758,400 miles squared.. The population of Mexico is 129,638,600 people.. The climate of Mexico is depending on where you are. If you’re on the outskirts of Mexico the climate is very hot and humid. If you are near the center of Mexico then the climate is very hot and dry. This happens because of the higher elevations in the center and the lower elevations on the outskirts.. . . UVI Caribbean Exploratory Research Center. 2016 Institute. . LaVerne E. Ragster, Ph.D.. CERC Research Associate . University of the Virgin Islands . Climate Change - our new world Environment. Climate Change and You. 1. There is weather and then there is climate…. Weather. is:. Short . term changes in atmospheric variables such as temperature and rainfall.. Can change rapidly. So…. Weather is what is happening outside right now. Mexico. Central America. Caribbean Islands. South America. Why do we call it . Latin. America?. We call it LATIN America because most of the European countries that colonized this region spoke Spanish or Portuguese. Both of these languages are derived (or come from) the ancient Latin language. Thus we call this region Latin America.. SS6G4 A-B-C. SS6G1. The student will locate selected features of Latin America and the Caribbean.. . a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map:. . Amazon River. , . Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre Mountains, . Ch. 47. Learning Latin American Cuisine. All around . latin. America the climate and geography, and rugged mountains and tropical rainforests have and impact on the food.. 3 native cultures have dominated: Aztecs (Mexico), Mayas (Central America), and Incas (South America).. and. GEOGRAPHY . Lesson #1. In your group…. Five . places . to visit there. Four land features . Three things that come from Latin America. Two events that happened there. One person you know of who came from there . Six Things you should know Climate Change and You 1. There is weather and then there is climate… Weather is: Short term changes in atmospheric variables such as temperature and rainfall. Can change rapidly United Nations, General recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19 (CEDAW/C/GC/35), 2017. Measuring femicide: e�ortsto bolsterproce Freshwater is critical to life throughout the Caribbean. Increasing global carbon emissions are projected to reduce average rainfall in this region by the end of the century, constraining freshwater availability, while extreme rainfall events, which can increase freshwater flooding impacts, are expected to increase in intensity. Saltwater intrusion associated with sea level rise will reduce the quantity and quality of freshwater in coastal aquifers. Increasing variability in rainfall events and increasing temperatures will likely alter the distribution of ecological life zones and exacerbate existing problems in water management, planning, and infrastructure capacity..