The Caribbean Dialogue on Water and Climate emerged out of preparations for the 3rd World Water Forum due to take place from March 16 to 23 in Kyoto, Japan. This process links with a global Dialogue on Water and Climate.

This has been designed to identify strategies to improve the capacity in water resources management to cope with the impacts of increasing variability of the world's climate. This can be achieved through the establishment of a platform through which policymakers and water resources managers have better access to, and make better use of information generated by climatologists and meteorologists.

CEHI has proposed a sustained programme of activities to promote better understanding of the phenomenon of climate variability and change and its impact on the supply of freshwater resources.