DISASTER RISK DIAGNOSIS WEBINAR

CARIBBEAN MSME’S AT THE FOREFRONT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. It is now agreed that these shifts are mainly human induced. Although being long term and gradual phenomenon’s, some impacts of climate change are already being felt and the trend is clearly worrying for Small Developing Island States. The Caribbean area, its inhabitants, its economies and its businesses are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

More severe heat waves, stronger hurricanes, unusual floods, new diseases, atmospheric pollutions, sea level rise… are among some of the hazards that businesses and individuals will have to cope with in the years and decades to come.

For Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of most sectors, survival of business models as we know them today is at stake, as direct and indirect impacts of climate change will gradually materialize. Surge of insurance premiums for all, droughts, loss of coral reefs and biodiversity… are only some of the visible parts of the climate change iceberg in the Caribbean.

• What practical preventive practices can be implemented to mitigate the likely impacts of climate change on your business?
• Can each individual business make a difference in mitigating impacts of climate change for an entire country?
• Is adapting to climate change affordable for a micro or a small business in the Caribbean?
• How can a more inclusive value chain approach be deployed to adapt quicker and make your business and our economies more resilient ?

As we sometimes feel unprepared and hopeless facing the reality of climate change, the Saint Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, the Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce and PIRAC have the pleasure to invite you to join other business proprietors to an interactive webinar on Wednesday 10th November 2021.