Renewable Energy & Early Warning Systems Offer Hope

Renewable Energy & Early Warning Systems Offer Hope

Hope in the face of climate extremes. That is the overarching message about the State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024.

With a temperature 0.90 °C above average, 2024 was between the first and second warmest year in the region. The World Meteorological Organization recounts what happened

Although Venezuela is in a usual dry period at this time of the year when rainfall is sporadic, some farmers fear that the rains will be delayed for the planting of the maize that begins from April 20 in Llanero states, such as Barinas. Saul Elias López, president of the Venezuelan Society of Agronomous Engineers (SVIA), says that there are producers who are being educated in agrotechnology and climate monitoring to optimize the resources that t…

Dying glaciers, exceptional hurricanes, unprecedented forest fires, strenuous droughts and deadly floods hit the socio-economic fabric of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024, reported the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), according to PL. The State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024 highlights the growing impact of extreme weather, climate and hydrological events on people's lives, livelihoods and food supply chain…

The World Meteorological Organization warned that the accelerated melting of glaciers in the Andes and the rise in sea level threaten coastal and island communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2024, Venezuela lost its last glacier, while Colombia... Full note »

(EFE).- The Caribbean Agency for Disaster Emergency Management (Cdema) warned this Thursday that climate change is advancing faster than the region’s efforts to combat it, and stressed that the geopolitical uncertainty created since Donald Trump’s arrival in power in the US does not help the situation. “The [...] Climate change entry is faster than its prevention was first published in ALnavio.