CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS EFFECTS

The climate change is one of the things that worries many people at this time. Many people in many sectors of work are very concerned about how to avoid the different risks that climate change can cause.

HOW CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS HAITI

The climate of Haiti has changed since the last 40 years, the temperature increases, and

the rainy season changed, started 3 months later than normal. The climatic projections indicated that the temperature will continue to increase throughout the entire 21st cycle. The variability of the rainy season causes much more drought in the dry season. In the same way this change causes climatological effects (cyclones, floods etc.). Then the amount of rain in the rainy periods will also increase which causes the rise in sea level. The coastal regions are subject to an increase in the inflow of salt water and as the increase in the oceans tends to salinize the soil. Farmers will no longer be able to grow crops. These factors will aggravate the problems of flooding and erosion of coastal areas that are in the path of storms and hurricanes. In the absence of significant adaptation efforts, these mechanisms will severely face water, land, agriculture and forest resources. Floods are a major problem in almost all of the largest rivers that exist in the country. Intense seasonal rainfall, storm surges in coastal areas, deforested and eroded landscape and river beds laden with sediments. The floods remove the cultivated land, deposit it in the riverbeds. This results in the destruction of crops, farms and all agricultural infrastructure, as well as losses in livestock and human lives almost every year.

Haiti's capacity to face the effects of climate change

Haiti has a low capacity to adapt to climate change and its consequences. The disaster management plans for coastal areas exposed to hurricanes are weakly developed. The government administers an early warning systemfloods, but has not yet produced adequate or accurate contingency data. In addition, an early warning system is only useful if it is accompanied by the capacity and the desire to intervene in time. There are very few accessible and adequate shelters in the hills, equipped with food and medicine.

it's very important that the government take action to reduce the possible risk rate during heavy rains so as to decrease the rate of victimThe government should facilitate the people living in low land