The course of the Cuba in handling and preparing for disaster was recently exposed to the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Program for Environment (UNEP), Ibrahim Thiaw, during an official two-day visit, who was impressed with presentations, "I was amazed to learn about the creation of the national weather service in the nineteenth century, the circumstances that caused its development and the progress made to date," he said.
Cuba belongs to the group of Small Island Developing States vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, and in order to mitigate this damage it consolidates programs to ensure a sustainable environmental future, in this regard, Thiaw expresed that Cuba's multidisciplinary work, ranging from phenomena monitoring such as tropical cyclones to desertification, drought, forest fires, floods, among others, needs to be exposed to the rest of the region and the world.