Saint Kitts and Nevis: generating climate change and disasters indicators for policy decision-making

Objectives

1. Train the participants to build selected environment, climate change and disaster indicators, and metadata.
2. Identify data and capacity gaps to develop an Environmental Information System (EIS) and build a regional resilience platform.
3. Understand better how geospatial data can enhance the use of environment, climate change and disaster indicators for effective decision making.

Expected outcomes

1. At least four prioritized climate change and disaster indicators and their metadata are available at the end of the workshop.
2. A selection of prioritized indicators from the Global Set of Climate Change Indicators are identified for Saint Kitts and Nevis.
3. Follow-up steps to build further selected climate change and disaster indicators are agreed to with the national focal points from the Department of Statistics and the Ministry of Environment and Cooperatives.

Workshop agenda and presentations are available HERE