Saint Lucia National Workshop

​On 24-26 May 2017, UNCTAD delivered a national capacity building workshop in St. Lucia on “Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for Coastal Transport Infrastructure in the Caribbean”

Key Issues

The St. Lucia workshop brought together a range of relevant national stakeholders including from the national airport and seaport authority (i.e. Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority – SLASPA) as well as policy makers (e.g. Department of Sustainable Development etc.) and representatives of national authorities (e.g. Saint Lucia Meteorological Services etc.). Participants discussed the findings of the case-study of St. Lucia, including the assessment of beach erosion in Saint Lucia with significant impacts on tourism well as the methodology for assessing climate-related impacts and adaptation options. The workshop also provided an opportunity to gather feedback and further input by national stakeholders.

Programme

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Presentations

Background and introduction of the project objectives and context , Regina Asariotis, UNCTAD

Climate Change Projections for the Caribbean and Implications for Air and Sea Ports , Leonard Nurse, University of the West Indies

LISCoAsT – Large Scale Integrated Sea-level and Coastal Assessment Tool: Application for the SIDS (I) , Michalis Vousdoukas, European Commission, Joint European Research Centre

A snapshot of Saint Lucia’s Nationally Determined Contribution to the UNFCCC, Neranda Maurice-George, Department of Sustainable Development, Government of Saint Lucia

Perspectives on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management in Coastal Transport Infrastructure in the OECS , Crispin D’Auvergne, Organisation of East Caribbean States Commission

Coastal Transportation Infrastructure in the Caribbean – An Economic Context, Willard Phillips, UN-ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean

Adaptation/DRR portfolio of UNDP Barbados and the OECS in the Eastern Caribbean, Mizushi Satoh, UNDP Barbados and the OECS

SAINT LUCIA: A Case study , Isavela Monioudi, University of the Aegean and Vasantha Chase, Chase Consulting Ltd.

Impacts of Natural Hazards on the Transport Infrastructure Sector, David A.Y. Smith, Smith Warner International Ltd.

Sea Level Rise, SIDS and Transport Infrastructure: Lessons From Real Examples of Coastal Subsidence, Miguel Esteban, University of Tokyo

Climate risk adaptation for ports: Research for transformational thinking, Austin Becker, University of Rhode Island

Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Framework for Caribbean Coastal Transport Infrastructure, Cassandra Bhat, ICF

Training: Identifying operational thresholds for vulnerability assessment, Cassandra Bhat, ICF

Applying the thresholds method/approach (Saint Lucia), Isavela Monioudi, University of the Aegean

Training: Gathering and applying climate information for decision-making, Cassandra Bhat, ICF

LISCoAsT – Large Scale Integrated Sea-level and Coastal Assessment Tool: Application for the SIDS (II), Michalis Vousdoukas, European Commission, Joint European Research Centre

Method to estimate touristic beach erosion, Isavela Monioudi, University of the Aegean

Seagrasses in Jamaica – Dr Pascal Peduzzi (UNEP-GRID)