Cuba's Life Task: Combatting Climate Change
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2022-04-28

We talk to Dr Helen Yaffe who shares her new documentary with us.

Climate change is among the world’s greatest challenges. As a small Caribbean island, Cuba is disproportionately affected by climate change through extreme weather events. Up to 10% of Cuban territory could be submerged by the end of the century, wiping out coastal towns, polluting water supplies, destroying agricultural lands and forcing one million people to relocate. Finding solutions is now essential.

In this documentary, Dr Helen Yaffe goes to Cuba to find out about ‘Tarea Vida’ (Life Task), a long-term state plan to protect the population, environment and the economy from climate change. The Cuban approach combines environmental science, natural solutions and community participation in strategies for adaptation and mitigation. 

Produced by DaniFilms with Dr Helen Yaffe from the University of Glasgow for the COP26 conference in Glasgow.

Helen Yaffe is a Visiting Fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre and a Lecturer in Economic and Social History in the University of Glasgow. Helen is an economic historian specializing in Cuba and Latin America, the history of economics, and the political economy of late development.  She is the author of several books including: "We Are Cuba! How a revolutionary people survived in post-Soviet world."

Thanks to DaniFilms

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