Inter Press ServiceViews from the Caribbean ahead of COP21, the December 2015 Climate Change Summit in Paris – Building Resilience to Disaster: Biodiversity https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/07/views-from-the-caribbean-ahead-of-cop21-the-december-2015-climate-change-summit-in-paris-building-resilience-to-disaster-biodiversity/ News and Views from the Global South Wed, 27 May 2026 07:14:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Views from the Caribbean ahead of COP21, the December 2015 Climate Change Summit in Paris – Building Resilience to Disaster: Biodiversity https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/07/views-from-the-caribbean-ahead-of-cop21-the-december-2015-climate-change-summit-in-paris-building-resilience-to-disaster-biodiversity/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/07/views-from-the-caribbean-ahead-of-cop21-the-december-2015-climate-change-summit-in-paris-building-resilience-to-disaster-biodiversity/#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2015 08:51:39 +0000 Kitty Stapp http://www.ipsnews.net/?p=141479 CODRINGTON, Barbuda. The fisheries sector in the CARICOM Region is an important source of income. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS

CODRINGTON, Barbuda. The fisheries sector in the CARICOM Region is an important source of income. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPS

By Kitty Stapp
NEW YORK, Jul 8 2015 (IPS)

Thanks to its varied geography and climate, the Caribbean region is one of the world’s greatest centers of unique biodiversity. With most people living near the coast, marine ecosystems, including mangroves, beaches, lagoons and cays, are essential not only for biodiversity, but as protection from storms. Many are now threatened, along with the coral reefs the region is famous for.

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