San Salvador, El Salvador. November, 2010-The Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR, in Spanish) for Mesoamerica was displayed in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the El Salvador XXIII International Fair that was held in the International Fairs and Conventions Center (CIFCO, in Spanish), November 9-14, 2010 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
The UAHuntsville/CATHALAC Climate Change and Sustainable Development Summer Program Expo
Panama City, Panama. October 21st, 2010 --- On Friday, October 15th, the University of Alabama in Huntsville invited the university community including students, professors, local corporations, and special guests, to celebrate the success of a unique study aboard program conducted in the summer of 2010 in partnership with the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) in Panama. The Program offers graduate and undergraduate students a combination of professional training, hands-on learning, research opportunities, and cultural immersion.
Satellites Keep Eye on Mangroves within Largest Barrier Reef System in the Americas
October 15, 2010 – Panama City, Panama - CATHALAC study, financed by WWF and facilitated by SERVIR system, provides crucial glimpse into important component of the world’s second largest barrier reef complex
Panama City, Panama, September 14, 2010-- The Regional Conference “Climate Change, Adaptation, and Security: From Strategy to Action” in Central America and the Caribbean, was held in Panama City on September 8th.
The three day conference was organized by the Department of State’s Regional Environmental Hub for Central America and the Caribbean, the U.S. Southern Command and the Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL), together with the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Central America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC.)
Climate change poses challenges to governments and security forces that range far beyond its impacts on the natural environment. Amid growing evidence that the region is vulnerable to direct and indirect impacts associated with climate change, many in the region are increasingly concerned about the challenges that climate change poses for the region in terms of rising sea levels, changes in rainfall patterns, increased intensity and frequency of major storm and drought events, and other direct impacts on natural resources, infrastructure, communities, as well as indirect impacts on public security arising from the same. Countries across the region could experience mass migrations, crop failures, the wider spread of disease, and competition over increasingly scarce resources especially water. While not itself a source of threat or conflict, climate change could act as a threat multiplier, exacerbating existing problems and tensions.
As part of the “Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas” (ECPA) announced by U.S. President Barack Obama at last year’s Summit of the Americas, this workshop brought together key public and private sector actors from the environmental, public security, and natural disaster communities to examine the implications of regional climate change trends for their respective sectors.
This activity which included plenaries and breakout sessions, also enabled participants, representing 14 countries from Central America and the Caribbean, to review climate change adaptation plans and actions underway in the region and to develop customized take home action plans to mainstream climate change adaptation into their respective areas of responsibility.
The event was held at the Marriott Panama Hotel, in Panama City, Republic of Panama and was attended by representatives of organizations from Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Also see Environmental Hub
El 18 de agosto del presente año se lanzó oficialmente a nivel nacional el Sistema de Información Geoespacial para el Manejo de Incendios (SIGMA-I) en la República de Guatemala, el cual fue ejecutado por el Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (CONAP), el Instituto Nacional de Bosques (INAB), el Sistema Nacional de Prevención y Control de incendios Forestales (SIPECIF-CONRED), Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN) en conjunto con CATHALAC y fue financiado a través de SERVIR por medio de USAID, CATHALAC y NASA.
El Simposio Regional de Aplicaciones de Tecnologías Geoespaciales en los Países CAFTA-DR se realizó del 6 al 7 de mayo de 2010, en la ciudad de Panamá, República de Panamá. El evento fue organizado en el marco del Proyecto Extensión de SERVIR en los países CAFTA DR, para un Monitoreo Ambiental Mejorado y Toma de Decisiones Informadas, el cual es implementado por el Centro del Agua del Trópico Húmedo para América Latina y el Caribe (CATHALAC), en conjunto con la Administración Espacial y Aeronáutica de los Estados Unidos de América (NASA, en inglés), con el financiamiento de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID, en inglés).
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