Though developed countries have agreed to jointly raise $100bn a year for the U.N.’s “green climate fund” to help developing nations adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change, so far donors have pledged only a fraction of that.
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“To get access to green funds, we must fulfil a series of tedious procedures, but hunger can’t wait,” Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei said.
bodies have sent teams in the countries affected by the storms to help communities cope with the immediate impact.Īt a meeting with leaders from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras on Monday, Cabei, the region’s development bank, said it had approved a $2.5bn fund “designed to finance projects that address and prevent disasters and calamities in order to adapt to the effects of climate variability and change.”īut regional leaders are also pushing for rapid access to large international funding pots, like the U.N.’s Green Climate Fund, which they claim are too slow and too difficult for them to access. Relief agencies, including the Red Cross, CARE and U.N. Is the rest of the world sending aid to Central America? In Central America, climate change has increased the intensity of both rains and droughts, according to the U.N. Iota is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Meteorologists tracked more hurricanes in the Atlantic this season than ever before, and though no one storm can be blamed on climate change, scientists agree that a warming planet makes weather patterns more destructive. But we may now be entering an era where very deadly storms are no longer once-in-a generation events. It has been as devastating as Central America’s Hurricane Mitch, which killed 11,000 people in 1998. How has climate change contributed to Eta and Iota?Įta is considered one of the worst weather-related disasters in the region in the last two decades. Many Red Cross volunteers have themselves lost their homes, he added. “That’s going to present a huge challenge to us for bringing in aid from outside the country,” Paredes said. A key airport in Honduras’ second city of San Pedro Sula has been flooded during both Iota and Eta. Iota developed later in the season than any other Category 5 storm on record, beating a November 8, 1932, Cuba hurricane, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. But the magnitude of this is just overwhelming,” he says.ĭisplaced Hondurans are having to move to new shelters as new areas of the country flood, Paredes says, while some areas that flooded during Eta are now seeing waters rise even faster and higher as flood defen ses have been destroyed. Scientists predict that rapid intensification will occur more and more frequently, as ocean temperatures continue to rise due to climate change.Mauricio Paredes, Vice-President of the Honduras Red Cross, says the rapid arrival of Iota just two weeks after Eta is severely complicating disaster response in the country. 15), Iota's winds speeds jumped by 40 mph (64 km/h) in just six hours this is an example of "rapid intensification," where storms rapidly strengthen over a very short period of time. "It also worries us that rain and flooding could destroy the next harvest, which subsistence farmers depend on," he said.
Iota made landfall as a category four storm near.
"Eta arrived at the worst moment, making life more difficult for millions of people who have been affected for years by erratic climate and recently by the socioeconomic crisis caused by COVID-19," Miguel Barreto, a regional director of the World Food Program,the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, said in a statement Nov. A powerful hurricane has brought torrential rains and strong winds to Nicaraguas Caribbean coast, two weeks after another devastating storm hit. 10, 2017, when Hurricane Ida made landfall in Southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm, leaving nearly two-thirds of Floridians without power in its wake. Name that hurricane: Famous examples of the 5 hurricane categoriesĪfter Eta, the onslaught of wind, rain and flooding brought by Iota will only compound previous damage, according to the NHC statement.
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