This presentation is based in a National Meteorologic Institute inform of 2012. It presents the expected consecuences of climatic change on agriculture, infrastructure and people's lifestyle

1. Impact of the climatic
change on Costa Rican
precipitation (2071-2100)
and its consecuences
LUIS ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ
CAMPOS

2. Contents
1. Perspectives for 2080 precipitation
2. Impact on agriculture, infrastructure and
people
3. What we can do?

3. Do you know that
Central America is
identified as a Climatic
Change
“HOT POINT”?

4. Source: IMN 2012
Rainfall
1950-
2000

5. Rainfall
2071-
2100
Source: IMN 2012

6. Principal crops need
1000-2000 mm/year
to good yields

7. Agriculture losses
 Decreasing yields: Rice,
corn, beans,
(water)melon, milk and
coffee
 Reduction in cultivable
area
 Livestock abatement

8. Consequences on
infrastructure
 Infrastructure losses
beacause of:
 Floodings
 Mudslides
 Tropical storms

9. Repercussions on people's
lifes
 Less available food and
water
 More diseases
 Less workingplaces

10. What we can do?
 Reduce pollution: Share your car, reduce
water-wasting
 Research on adapting crops and systems
to water lack: Israel example
 Plan cities growth
 Make water reservoirs and ducts

11. "Adapt
NOW
or die
TOMORROW"

12. Thank you
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION?