
The gloomy forecast was delivered by vice president Rafael Alburquerque yesterday to delegates from 179 countries in the 16th Summit on Climatic Change. Alburquerque, who heads the Dominican delegation in the world conclave, said the country will have to spend more than US$8.5 billion to adequately deal with the impact of global warming in the areas of tourism, water and energy.
He warned that the effects of climatic change have been clearly felt in the island for a long time, and as an example cited the constant swelling of the lakes Enriquillo and Azuei, whose floods have left hundreds of thousands of acres of agro and pasture lands under water and forced hundreds of poor farming families from their homes….
Map of San Domingo in the island of Hispaniola, from a plate by Montanus, in 1671
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