Ministry attempts to raise climate awareness
(CNS): The Ministry of Sustainability and Climate Resiliency has launched a Climate and Energy Challenge to raise awareness about climate change in the Cayman Islands. As the UPM’s commitment to prepare the country for climate change and create a more sustainable future appears to be waning, the ministry is hoping to engage the public and inspire residents to take action in their daily lives.
From now until 13 October, people can download a Climate and Energy Challenge calendar with links to videos, activities and instructions, culminating in a quiz where people can opt into a random prize giveaway.
Since Wayne Panton was ousted from the office of premier in a coup last year, the reshuffled government appears to have done nothing to address the pressing problem of climate change. It is even working on amendments to undermine the National Conservation Act and weaken the already very limited powers of the National Conservation Council to do its job.
The long-awaited, ambitious and comprehensive climate change policy document, which was destined to go to Cabinet before the coup, is now gathering dust. The current minister, Kathy Ebanks-Wilks, recently said the document, which was written by scientists, had been “edited” by MPs.
The minister told parliament in July that it had been re-submitted to caucus but could not say when the document would be adopted.
Speaking about this campaign to raise awareness about the pressing issue of climate change, Ebanks-Wilks said that a similar version of this challenge had been hosted for civil servants earlier this year. Now it is being rolled out for all residents of the Cayman Islands.
“Climate change has the potential to impact all aspects of life for Cayman Islands residents and we want to ensure our community is empowered with the knowledge of what those impacts may be,” she said. “I hope this Challenge will encourage the public to participate and to consider opportunities for building up their own resiliency to climate impacts while offering a chance to win some great prizes.”
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Category: Climate Change, Policy, Politics, Science & Nature
That room must be full with papers by now. It’s really sad that all of that work was for nothing.
Bwahahaha you can’t make this stuff up!
In the meantime we will continue to provide big Chevy Tahoes for our MP’s to drive themselves around in, in order to serve their bar attendance needs.
When most (if not all) Ministers are CUC shareholders or relatives to those who run CUC, the country’s monopoly electricity / power provider, please, for the love of god, stop talking SH*T! about any “commitment to prepare the country for climate change and create a more sustainable future”.
Prizes, really? Are we little kids?
An app? a random prize giveaway? are you kidding me? This is the government’s attempts to prepare this very low lying country for the inevitable crisis that climate change poses to this nation? What a joke! The problem is the unabated burning of fossil fuels globally for energy and transportation. Copious beef farming and consumption also makes a note worthy appearance in the naughty list. Sure I live my life as sustainably as I reasonably can, but make no mistake, these are expensive habits to create in ones life. Individuals making personal sacrifices in their daily comforts and impulses is a part of it, but without a doubt the lion share (understatement) of the impact on global climate change must come from policy initiatives enacted by governments across the globe and here in Cayman. We can start by breaking up the CUC stranglehold on this country, but we all know that was the part the MPs changed in the policy document written by scientists. I assure you nothing changed in that policy was for the wider community benefit. Vote them all out!
cayman climate action….downloadable calender and quizzes…..zzzzz
welcome to wonderland.
It is almost impossible to do sustainability in a political and economic climate that emphasises overdevelopment above all else.
Cayman is run like an extraction economy. But without any commodities to extract.
Sad to see the political and economic mismanagement of a territory that should have been a shining jewel.