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Climate and climate change – An overview

IWRA - 1st ISLANDS WATER CONGRESS
Keynote Speakers - ISLANDS AND FRESHWATER IN A CHANGING CLIMATE (KS1)
Author(s): Andrias Klein Gregoriussen
Andrias Klein Gregoriussen - Meteorologist at the Faroese Meteorological Office, Weather Presenter on the Faroese national television and radio
Ronald Roopnarine - Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Food and Agriculture, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus (FFA, UWI)


Keyword(s): climate change, freshwater
Article: PDF

AbstractHow is climate change affecting the weather in the Faroe Islands? How is climate change affecting islands worldwide and in the Caribbean in particular? What is being done to improve climate resilience of freshwater resources? These questions will be discussed in this first keynote speaker session providing a much needed backdrop to the rest of the Congress.