UN and Canal authority  sign climate change  action accord

With climate change threatening the  water  supply of the inter-ocean  channel, The UN Environment agency and the  Panama Canal Authority (ACP) have signed agreement to accelerate their efforts against climate change,

“We will work to protect the environment and promote climate change mitigation and adaptation of programs that guarantee the supply of water,” said ACP Administrator Jorge Quijano, on Friday, July 26

The agreement signed by Quijano and the regional director of UN Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean, Leo Heileman, contemplates the exchange of experiences and knowledge, the development of research and programs of joint interest, and the training of the human resources of each institution.

The ACP said that the alteration of rainfall patterns and climate change constitutes one of the main threats to the Canal basins, which supply more than two million people in addition to being responsible for the generation of energy and the operations of the route..