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T&T took a significant step toward climate resilience yesterday, hosting the National Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (MHEWS) Forum at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre. The event, themed “Building a Resilient Trinidad and Tobago Through a Community-Centred National Early Warning System”, brought together key stakeholders to finalise a new strategy designed to protect citizens against escalating environmental threats.
The forum marks the culmination of two and a half years of collaborative work between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM), and the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), with support from the Embassy of Japan. Its core purpose is to discuss the findings of a national diagnostic assessment and greenlight a long-term investment plan for the MHEWS.
Laura Rojas, IDB’s Disaster-Risk Management Unit Chief, was present at COP30 and gave Guardian Media some insight into the forum in Trinidad. She said, “The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the report and the plan to move ahead with the investments.”
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