CARIMAC Times 2016: The JREAM Edition Journalists Reviving Awareness of what Matters

Photo by Varun Baker Climate change is primarily problematic because the majority of populations of small-island states live along the coastline, and these developing states share a more intimate relationship with the surrounding water bodies. and decreased productivity experienced during Hurricane Michelle was responsible for zero point eight per cent loss of GDP. Four years ago, in 2012, that figure increased by zero point one per cent. Since 90 per cent of small-island states are located in the tropics, they are seasonally exposed to tropical storms and hurricanes, floods, landslides and droughts. Climate change may reduce or disrupt rainfall but when it rains, it does heavily. Gender and climate Hurricane activities also account for some loss to the island’s ailing GDP. In 2001, the Government of Jamaica concluded that damage The UNFCCC stated that there are at least 50 million people living on small islands. And, as the United Nations entity for Gender Equality, UN Women highlighted, the differentials between males and females extend into how they are both impacted by climate change. They are impacted in different ways because 157

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