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By Mariama Njie
A training workshop to update the Gambia strategic program for Climate Resilience (SPCR) and science of climate change which is funded by the Ministry of Environment, climate & natural Resource (MECCNAR) is underway at Atlantic hotel in Banjul.
The aim of updating the SPCR document is geared towards carrying out climate vulnerability assessment, which could not be accomplished in 2017 due to time constraint.
However, the RMSI’s consultancy is intended to focus on vulnerabilities studies in respect to agriculture, health, coastal infrastructure, feasibility of weather, insurance and capacity building.
Lamin Jammeh climate change officer at the ministry of Environment, climate and national resource, said the Gambia’s SPCR targets are climate resilient food and landscape, low emissions and resilient economy, climate resilient people, the infrastructure and waste management.
He explained that, the Gambia requested for $1.5 million from CIF (PPCR sub-committee) in 2016, and also the Gambia was supported with the requested grant to develop it strategic program on climate Resilience through a Multilateral Development Bank as the implementation Agency.
Dr. Murari Lal Technical head of climate change in India, gave a presentation on science of climate change.
“The greatest challenge facing the world since the beginning of the century is climate change. The effects of climate change are already being observed on every continent and sectors’’, he said.
He also explained that, climate model consists of four main components, which is the atmosphere, the land surface, biosphere, the oceans and the polar ice.
Dr. Lal pointed out that, over the past forty years, the Gambia has experience a decline in mean total annual rainfall.
“Since the mid-1960s, changes in climate observed in the Gambia have been characterized by erratic rainfall patterns, unseasonal rains and terrestrial rainfall, storms, drought and cold spells’’, he revealed.