A national level programme, ME WE GREEN, is being implemented to continue climate change adaptation solutions across eight communities.

In a statement, conservation NGO IAMovement said the programme is in its second year of implementation, educating citizens on climate change adaptation, inspiring them to make a change and empowering them with green infrastructure tools to do so.

“ME WE GREEN’s goal is to promote greater overall climate resilience in T&T relating to soil and water-related challenges through the use of the Vetiver System (VS) as a green infrastructure tool.”

The group said through this project, between 2021 – 2022 and with the support of the GORTT Ministry of Planning and Development’s Green Fund, IAMovement is taking a model which it has developed and refined over the last five years called the Vetiver Education & Empowerment Programme (VEEP) to eight communities across Trinidad & Tobago, working closely with many different partners and collaborators in each geographic area for its implementation …