CCCES part of the region’s strategy to build and sustain regional resilience

The Caribbean Centre for Climate and Environmental Simulations (CCCES), which forms part of the region’s strategy to build and sustain regional resilience, has been doing good work in the last four years of its establishment.

Dr. David Farrell, Principal at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology who is presently overseas, recently called attention to the work of the CCCES as he spoke using a virtual platform, during the Vice-Chancellor’s Forum held under the theme “Resilience in Practice and Thinking”, which took place in The Solutions Centre, Shell Suite, at the UWI Cave Hill Campus recently.

The Caribbean Centre for Climate and Environmental Simulations (CCCES) was established in 2014 at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology & Hydrology (CIMH), through support from the USAID BRCCC programme. The CCCES is part of the region’s strategy to build and sustain regional resilience to the risk posed by climate change, increasing climate variability, extreme weather and increasing environmental degradation and change. The CCCES addresses resilience in these areas, by providing CARICOM scientists, engineers and researchers with state-of-the-art computations resources to conduct complex simula-tions and analyses within and across disciplines on a range of scenarios to adequately identify, bound and mitigate the drivers of risk to the social and economic development of the Caribbean.

Dr. Farrell has noted that the mission of the Caribbean Centre for Climate and Environmental Simulations (CCCES), is to provide climate and environmental researchers in CARICOM Member States with state-of-the-art computational resources to one, develop solutions to challenging climate and environmental problems in the region to inform decision-making; two, further climate and environmental research in the region; and three, support risk-based early warning systems across the region.

It is envisioned that the CCCES will become the primary climate and environment simula-tion platform for climate, weather, hydrological and environmental scientists and researchers from CARICOM Member States and that Centre will facilitate and support a range of inter-disciplinary and international collaborations. (RSM)