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Climate Change in the Caribbean

The Caribbean has seven of the most water-scares countries in the world. Infrastructure, our housing stocks were not built to accommodate deluge that we're seeing across the region. In Dominica, it's 85% of the debt is linked to hurricanes. The people from the Caribbean, when we start losing our land to sea level rises, and we are projecting a 80% increase under some scenarios of category four and five hurricanes will be hitting our region.

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