Florida, February 14.- Community leaders and residents of Playa Florida received recent training on laws and decrees that regulate the management of natural resources, and in particular the care of the coasts, as part of the improvement actions established in the State Plan to confront Climate Change in Cuba, an initiative aimed at strengthening resilience in areas of the country’s southern coast.
The training was organized by the highest representation of the Mi Costa Project in the province of Camagüey and given by the specialist Yunier Cepero, coordinator of the network of legal advisors of the project and director of the Office of Environmental Regulation and Safety in the Camagüey territory.
The environmental improvement activity was developed in the classroom attached to the municipal training center of the Mi Costa Project in this municipality, enabled at the Heriberto Martín Guzmán Primary School in Playa Florida, one of the 24 settlements on the southern Cuban coast where this initiative is implemented sponsored by international organizations.
Raising awareness and community commitment to the importance of protecting ecosystems, and promoting the necessary knowledge to guarantee it effectively, are supreme objectives in the priority of strengthening the capacities for adaptation to climate change in localities on the southern Cuban coast. highly vulnerable to sea level rise, as is the case of Playa Florida.
