Roots for Peace: Uncovering Climate Security Challenges in Haiti and What to Do About Them
Security Theme
Natural Disasters
Keywords
Natural Disasters, Climate and enviornmental impacts, political and socio-economic impacts, climate security risk pathways
Description
Haiti is considered the most vulnerable country in Latin America and the Caribbean to climate change, and already experiences significant climate risks. Notably, these include rising temperatures, declining rainfall, an increasing number of hot days, more intense hurricanes and rising sea levels that threaten to compound coastal erosion and flooding. These risks all interact with centuries of practices that have eroded Haiti’s natural environment on which so many rely, and are converging with other political and socio-economic factors which only reinforce climate change impacts. For policy makers, it is essential to understand how climate change and environmental degradation interact with the ongoing crisis in Haiti in order to address them. Without effective responses to address these compounding risks, the trends displayed in Table 1 below are set to intensify over the next 30 years.
Roots for Peace: Uncovering Climate Security Challenges in Haiti and What to Do About Them
Haiti is considered the most vulnerable country in Latin America and the Caribbean to climate change, and already experiences significant climate risks. Notably, these include rising temperatures, declining rainfall, an increasing number of hot days, more intense hurricanes and rising sea levels that threaten to compound coastal erosion and flooding. These risks all interact with centuries of practices that have eroded Haiti’s natural environment on which so many rely, and are converging with other political and socio-economic factors which only reinforce climate change impacts. For policy makers, it is essential to understand how climate change and environmental degradation interact with the ongoing crisis in Haiti in order to address them. Without effective responses to address these compounding risks, the trends displayed in Table 1 below are set to intensify over the next 30 years.
