PACT’s $1.9M Climate Project Arms Local Teams with Smart Tech

Earlier this week, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust, better known as PACT, delivered a tech boost to several municipalities across Belize. We’re talking laptops, GPS units, drones, and more, all handed over as part of the GCF Readiness 10 Project. Funded by the Green Climate Fund and managed by the Climate Finance Unit, this initiative is backed by a one-point-nine-million-dollar grant aimed at building Belize’s climate resilience. This moves things ahead in a meaningful way by giving local teams the tools they need to protect our environment and prepare for the challenges ahead.

 

Abil Castaneda, Executive Director, PACT

“We’re very happy that we have an opportunity to be with you all, we’re actually parallel, a very important time for climate change globally, as we have COP30 happening in Belem, Brazil. In fact, CEO and the minister leave tomorrow to join the negotiations to see how much more we can stress the need for develop countries to do their part and to put their money where their impact is. Now, when I came to PACT, I asked the same question that maybe a lot of people still ask, why is PACT getting into climate change and all of that? And very quickly, I became cognizant that while PACT’s original objective and still core mandate of protecting and supporting the protection of our protected areas, supporting conservation, supporting sustainable development. Climate change is the single most significant impact, threat, vulnerability risk that our environment faces.”