Topic: climate change
Planning to improve traffic flow
As Cayman looks to update its Development Plan for the first time in more than two decades, managing traffic has moved up the list of priorities.
New app for bus passengers
A new smartphone app is making it possible for some passengers to check the location of their bus. Set up by a group of public transport drivers, the K-Bus app has been launched, initially with nine buses.
Bike-share business popular with tourists
Opposite the Westin hotel on West Bay Road, a couple unloads groceries and beach towels from the basket of a distinctive green-and-white bicycle.
The car that rents by the minute…
In the plush interior of the Arch Automotive showroom in Camana Bay, I push a button on my smartphone and a map lights up with four ‘Zun’ icons, indicating the location of available vehicles.
Stuck in traffic? There’s an app for that
At one of Cayman’s biggest businesses, the conversation about congestion is going beyond talk. Dart’s internal innovation unit, known as Dart Labs, is road testing solutions.
Would Cayman ditch private cars for the bus?
Government is considering bigger buses and new routes as it seeks to improve public transport and encourage people to leave their cars behind, says Rosa Harris, chair of the Public Transport Board.
Hedge funds nudged to environmental and social investing
As climate change and inequality are dominating the media and public agenda, a growing number of institutional investors are basing their investment allocations on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria and are forcing alternative funds to take these factors into account in their portfolios.
Activists to sail Atlantic to address climate change
Two young activists from Cayman, Steff Mcdermot and Megan Ehman, are getting ready to sail across the Atlantic to collaborate with other countries on finding sustainable solutions to climate change.
Cayman embraces new era of weather forecasting
Meteorologists at the Cayman Islands National Weather Service hope that investments in forecasting equipment and research capabilities will facilitate better predictions and understanding of the islands’ often variable conditions.
Our youth offer hope for the planet
The global protests of young people are raising awareness of climate change.
Cayman students join Madrid climate protest
Caymanian students were part of a youth protest Wednesday at the international climate change summit in Spain.
Small island states offering lessons in climate change
Following the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017, the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica hopes to become a laboratory of sorts for climate resilience.
UN Climate Action Summit rejects talk, demands plans
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres opened Monday’s Climate Action Summit with a call to action: “The climate crisis comes from us and the solutions must come from us.”
Climate change impacts on small islands on UN agenda
Small island states like Cayman rank among the world’s most vulnerable in climate change projections.
Conference to explore disaster management, climate change
The speakers slated for the upcoming annual Cayman Islands Healthcare Conference will cover topics including disaster risk management, climate change and the ‘One Health’ approach.
Commonwealth governments collaborate on climate change
It has been almost two years since I sat in a security plane flying over the once familiar, but then almost unrecognisable, terrain of Dominica – the country of my birth.
Jessop: Climate science and the Caribbean voice
In the last few days new evidence has been published suggesting that scientists are now 99 percent certain that human activity is causing global warming.
Morse: Climate change — Does Cayman care?
Back here in Cayman, it feels very different. Two years have passed since our National Energy Policy was passed into law with a target of 70% of our power to be generated from renewable sources by 2037. But little appears to have been done.
PAHO leads climate change workshop
Last week about 50 people from the Cayman Islands public and private sectors attended a two-day session, organised by the Pan American Health Organization and the Ministry of Health, on the impacts of climate change on health and health systems.
Morse: Young people must demand action on climate change
In London this Easter, Greta Thunberg, the 15-year-old Swedish climate activist, joined the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ demonstration, blocking the streets of central London to demand action on climate change. She met, and was warmly supported by, all the main UK political parties. The UK government is taking notice.
EDITORIAL — Getting serious about resource preservation
More than a third of all marine mammals around the world; more than 40% of amphibian species. The prospect is — or ought to be — unthinkable.
Beck: Calculating the value of coral reefs
According to a report compiled by hundreds of scientists from 50 countries, Earth is losing species faster than at any other time in human history.
Column: Don’t let rising seas drown the Marshall Islands
Determined to act before it’s too late, the Marshall Islands are transforming themselves into a real-life laboratory for preparing for the effects of climate change.
Hew to attend Caribbean Infrastructure Forum
Commerce, Planning and Infrastructure Minister Joseph Hew will attend the third Caribbean Infrastructure Forum in the Bahamas this week, where he will join other regional ministers to discuss climate change and policymaking.
Cayman parliamentarian calls for climate action
Cayman Islands MLA Kenneth Bryan called on the Commonwealth Heads of Government last week to support the creation of a council to closely monitor the impacts of climate change on member states.
Morici: Five forces that will reshape civilization
For those with lazy vacation eyes, let me offer my short form – five forces that will reshape our civilization by 2030.
‘Aggressive action’ needed to save coral reefs
Climate change targets set out in the Paris Agreement are “inadequate” to prevent the devastation of the world’s coral reefs, the head of Little Cayman’s marine research center has warned.
Cayman experiences driest, one of hottest years on record
Grand Cayman experienced the driest and one of the hottest years on record in 2016, according to the Cayman Islands National Weather Service. Data from Owen Roberts International Airport indicated rainfall at less than half the 30-year average of 56.2 inches.
Rahn: Causing less harm by doing nothing
It has not only been a waste of money, it has done real harm. Some trillions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars have been spent to combat global warming over the last three decades.
CCMI president in Sri Lanka to study sea levels
After nearly two decades of studying the Cayman Islands, Central Caribbean Marine Institute President Carrie Manfrino has traveled halfway around the world for her latest scientific study, focusing on rising sea levels in the Indian Ocean.
EDITORIAL – Power lines: Our stance on ‘green’ energy
We (and no doubt our readers) were cheered by all aspects of the headline that appeared in Thursday’s Cayman Compass: “Oil, solar contribute to...
EDITORIAL – Yellow plates, green energy
While we rarely comment on commentary that is submitted to us, today we will make an exception for two letters — one on vehicular...
Response to Jan. 6 editorial
The Cayman Renewable Energy Association (CREA) wishes to address the editorial of Jan. 6, entitled “Cayman’s combat with climate change: A bunch of hot...
