Cuba takes steps to tackle climate change
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The Environment Agency (AMA by its Spanish acronym) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (Citma by its Spanish acronym) is carrying out a group of actions aimed at minimizing the impact of the effects of climate change.
As part of the State Plan for Confronting Climate Change ( Tarea Vida), the agency undertook five actions and 11 specific tasks.
The work carried out by the institutions belonging to the AMA made it possible to strengthen early warning systems, starting with the completion of the first stage of the modernization program of the Meteorological Radar Network.
The agency re-established the functioning of the eight units that make up the network, completed the National Atlas of Cuba 60th Anniversary, the first in digital format for multimedia and made only by Cuban specialists, and prepared new projections of the average rise in sea level for 2050 (29 centimeters) and 2100 (95 cm).
They jointly prepared the Map of Mangrove Cover Change for Cuba from 1956 to 2018 and the assessment and monitoring of the state of conservation of the mangrove-sea grass and coral reef complex in the priority areas of the Cuban shelf.
Specialists from the Agency updated the knowledge on the variations and changes observed in the Cuban climate since late 20th century, and the estimation of new climate scenarios until the end of the current century, with higher spatial resolution.
As a senior management body, AMA also managed 87 research projects, mainly linked to the National Climate Change Programs in Cuba: Impact, Mitigation and Adaptation, Sustainable Use of the Components of Biological Diversity in Cuba, and Meteorology and Sustainable Development.