Course on Risks of Climate Changes ends up Today in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 20 (acn) The 2nd Course on confronting phenomena of natural and technological origin to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will end today in this city.

The risk perception on probable natural disasters will catch attention of those attending the meeting, which opened last Monday at Palco Hotel, in Havana´s Conventions Palace.
Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda, Granada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Dominica and Suriname, will share experiences with Cuban experts regarding the dangers of hydro-meteorological phenomena.
The first speaker today will be Martha Rosa Muñoz, from the University of Havana and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO by its Spanish acronym), a non-governmental international institution created in 1967 and with associated status at UNESCO.
The program includes conferences by other renowned personalities such as PhD. Ana Teresa Badia, MSc. Ricardo Berriz Valle, MSc. Carlos Rodriguez Otero, among others.
The Cuba´s Environment Agency, organizer of the event, has planned for tomorrow a visit to Viñales National Park, in the province of Pinar del Rio, declared World Heritage Site in 1999 by UNESCO, in the category of Cultural Landscape.