CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE CCCCC Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network on Technol

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC)Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot Network
on Technology Information Centres

• The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
  (CCCCC) was designated by the governments of the
  Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to be the centre of
  excellence for the development of policy,
  technical research and the mobilization of
  financial and other resources to address climate
  change and related matters within the community.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The CCCCC is based in Belize and was charged with
  the development of policies, strategies and
  measures to address mitigation and adaptation to
  climate change in CARICOM. The related
  technology transfer information initiatives and
  actions were included in this mandate.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The CCCCC through its information technology
  activities (website hosting, etc.) was to be a
  regional node as part of the UNFCCC technology
  information transfer and public education and
  outreach (under Article 6) clearing house
  mechanism.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The CCCCC as a regional node of the technology
  information network would be better able to
  provide data and information to its clients. The
  data and information provided would be guided by
  the needs of the clients. UNFCCC and other
  support will be pursued to help us in the process.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The CCCCC would focus its attention more on the
  content of the network rather than on the
  technology used in operating the network. The
  network will proactively try to deliver
  information to clients, especially national
  governments, leading to policy changes in
  preparing the region to effectively adapt to CC.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The CPACC regional project, based in Barbados,
  developed and populated a website on climate
  change for and to support practitioners and
  clients within the public and private sectors of
  the CARICOM. The website was leased/rented from
  and hosted by a private company in Barbados. The
  follow-on project Mainstreaming Adaptation to
  Climate Change (MACC) was to inherit the website
  and associated resources to be used as part of
  its support for the CCCCC.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• MACC, a GEF funded project, was being executed by
  the CARICOM Secretariat (CCS) with the World Bank
  (WB) as implementing agency, was based in the
  CCCCC in Belize.
• The IT and website functions of the MACC project
  were under its Public Education and Outreach
  component and was to build on and implement the
  regional and national PEO strategies developed
  under the CPACC.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The website and its functions continued to be
  physically managed and operated from Barbados
  instead of at the CCCCC in Belize. The MACC and
  CCCCC roles were to be that of supplying data and
  information for uploading in Barbados. This was
  unacceptable the MACC and the CCCCC as control
  over quality and administration was lost.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The technological and qualitative transformation
  of the site to enable it to fulfill the role of a
  regional node in line with the UNFCCC SBSTA
  guidelines was not being achieved within the
  existing framework. It was not able to provide
  access to and exchange of climate sensitive
  information and technologies to climate change
  practitioners and clients within and outside the
  CARICOM.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• Sometime late in 2005 to early 2006 it was
  reported that the website had crashed and all
  the information and data was lost. It was not
  clear what happened to the backups but attempts
  to revive and re-populate the site seemed beset
  by technical problems. The site had not been
  revived up to August 2006 when the mid-term
  review of the project was conducted.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The WB and the CCS conducted the mid-term review
  of the MACC and both agreed to transfer the
  executing agency function for the MACC project
  from the CCS to the CCCCC. The transition
  process is about to be finalized following
  agreement from all the participating governments
  of the CARICOM. The executing agency role of the
  CCCCC is in line with that being performed for
  other CC related projects supported by the WB and
  other development partners.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The MACC/CCCCC has established a new website,
  www.caribbeanclimate.bz, which came on line in
  February 2007. The rights and ownership of the
  original site name, www.caribbeanclimate.org,
  belongs to the private company and was not
  available to the CCCCC. The new site is owned
  and located within the CCCCC thus allowing for
  administrative, technical and editorial control.
  

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The CCCCC will develop and manage the site to
  perform the functions of a regional node in the
  UNFCCC network by providing and exchanging
  climate friendly data and information to and with
  the Caribbean professionals, practitioners and
  the public-at-large as well as cooperators and
  partners beyond the Caribbean boundaries.

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The MACC/CCCCC works with a number of technical
  partners and will establish linkages to exchange
  and disseminate data and information from and
  with them

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• Some of the technical partners generating
  information and data for the MACC/CCCCC include
  NOAA, Center for Marine Sciences (UWI), Caribbean
  Emergency Disaster Response Agency, Climate
  Studies Group (UWI), Department of Survey and
  Land Information (UWI), CERMES (UWI)

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• MACC/CCCCC will provide access to data and
  information to our clients
• National governments though their NFPs,
  ministries and departments, etc.
• NGOs and private sector agencies
• Knowledge based institutions
• The public-at-large and outside agencies

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CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY CLIMATE CHANGE CENTRE
(CCCCC) Participation in the UNFCCC Pilot
Network on Technology Information Centres

• The site is now being re-populated with data and
  information retrieved physically from individuals
  and organizations in the countries associated
  with the previous projects and activities.
  Towards this end the CCCCC has commenced
  initiatives aimed at re-establishing linkages
  with the UNFCCC process that would allow it to
  access the financial resources that were
  allocated but never accessed to carry out this
  function.