The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) last week (May 13-17, 2019) established a sub-data node in Paramaribo, Suriname, to support the Regional Clearinghouse Mechanism, the single largest searchable collection of climate change information on the Caribbean. This brings to six the number of data nodes established with funding from the United States Agency for International Development Climate Change Adaptation Program (USAID CCAP).

Officers in training at the Met Office in Paramaribo, Suriname on Friday May 17, 2017

Five data-nodes were set up in Grenada, St Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana and Suriname; and another in St Kitts and Nevis expanded and re-equipped CCAP, a partnership between USAID and the Centre to build resilience to climate change in countries of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. 

Last week the CCCCC worked with staff from the Meteorological Service of Suriname to digitize historical documents using scanning equipment provided by USAID CCAP. On Friday, a training session was conducted to provide members of the department with the skills necessary for maintaining and operating the data node which is directly linked to and provides country-specific information to the Regional Clearinghouse.