Excerpt and Photo from royalgazette.com
A report outlining the dangers Bermuda may face from climate change has been made public.
Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said that the Bermuda and Climate Change report outlined risks and solutions from two years of research.
He warned that the effects of climate change were already being felt and were likely to put critical infrastructure in danger.
Mr Roban added: “Change is no longer far off — it is here right now with us in Bermuda today and our environment is changing.”
The report was commissioned in March 2022 and put together by the coastal engineering firm Smith Warner International and the British Government.
It studied Bermuda’s vulnerabilities, as well as how sea level rises and storm patterns would alter the environment.
Mr Roban pointed to extreme weather events the island had experienced over the past few years, including intense flooding in some low-lying areas and more intense storms.
