How is Climate change affecting the Canal?

Environmental

In the last 32 years (1985-2017), the temperature in the water basin of the Panama Canal increased by an average of 0.5 degrees centigrade.

It is a climatic variation that alerts the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), taking into account that the result of this change translates into a “water deficit” marked in the last five years.

These data were published in a report by the ACP and collected by means of annual monitoring at the hydrometric stations located in the main rivers: Chagres, Pequení, Boquerón, Trinidad and Cirí Grande , as well as for the reservoirs: Gatún and Alajuela.

Although at first sight the figure of 0.5 degrees Celsius seems low, for Carlos Vargas, vice president of Environment, Water and Energy of the ACP, is “a lot” if you consider parameters such as the Paris Agreement , signed in France in 2015 by 195 countries , in order to combat climate change and have a future with low carbon emissions.

This agreement was intended to keep the temperature rise in this century well below 2 degrees Celsius, and even push efforts to limit the increase below 1.5 degrees, as a more secure line of defense against the worst impacts of the climate change.

READ MORE:https://impresa.prensa.com/panorama/Cambio-climatico-impacta-Canal_0_5116738293.html

No Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Agriculture
Newly installed tower will monitor climate change in Coiba.

The first meteorological tower in the northeast of the Coiba National Park will allow to know the impact that the rains have on the organisms of the island, explained Edgardo Díaz-Ferguson, executive director of Coiba AIP. Coiba is a place where there is a lot of rainfall and “now we …

Chiriqui
Five hectares of Chirqui still affected by blaze.

The firefighters confirmed that they have controlled 85% of the fire that is developing for the fourth consecutive day on Punta hill, Tierras Altas district, in Chiriquí, and that so far it has consumed some five hectares of the La Amistad International Park (PILA), reported this Saturday, May 13, the …

Conservation
As I always cover,PANAMA is stepping up for what makes them money. Now clean up Bocas.

The World Bank (WB) decided to approve a $150 million loan to promote green and sustainable growth and increase climate resilience in Panama. This is the first loan in a programmatic series of two operations for development policies that seek to support green growth, resilience, and an inclusive development model …