The Caribbean

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Region: The Caribbean

The Caribbean:

Projects
6
Resources
53
Stories
12
Resource
26th January 2017
POLICY BRIEF: Climate compatible tourism adaptation options for Belize
Resource
30th June 2016
INSIDE STORY:  Climate change and flood risk - Challenges for Jamaican towns and communities Jamaica faces increased flooding as a result of climate change. Jamaica's development planners can take climate-smart actions - as this new 'Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development' describes.
Event
13th August 2015
Flooding and climate change in Jamaica: Risk to vulnerable communities In this CDKN webinar, Dr Arpita Mandal of the University of West Indies discusses how new planning tools can help communities deal with climate change and flood-related risks in Jamaica - and protect the most vulnerable citizens.
Feature
28th April 2015
Getting climate finance ready - insights from Jamaica (Part 2) Part 2 of our interview with Claire Bernard of the Planning Institute of Jamica provides insights into how Jamaican institutions have managed national climate change priorities and mobilised the financial resources to support their goals.
Feature
28th April 2015
Getting climate finance ready - insights from Jamaica (Part 1) Claire Bernard of the Planning Institute of Jamica (PIOJ) provides insights into how Jamaican institutions have prepared to receive and manage international climate finance and what their experience can offer others.
Resource
25th March 2015
Image of coffee beans, Jamaica Image of coffee beans, Jamaica
Feature
13th October 2014
The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report Dr Kenrick Leslie, CBE, Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, reflects on the implications of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report for the region, as he prepares to welcome representatives of the IPCC and Caribbean governments and businesses to a launch event, co-sponsored by CDKN, in Barbados.
Feature
9th September 2014
What do leaders of Small Island Developing States say about living with climate change? Kiran Sura, CDKN’s Head of Advocacy Fund, reviews the discussions from the Third United Nations Conference for Small Island Developing States on managing climate-related disaster risks and fostering climate-smart development planning.
Feature
9th September 2014
“Island voices, global choices” Kiran Sura, CDKN’s Head of Advocacy Fund, outlines the objectives and major climate and sustainability debates at the Third United Nations Conference for Small Island Developing States
News
4th March 2014
Sea level rise threatens Caribbean If current models are correct, in 50 years the entire landscape of the Caribbean would have changed, its beaches disappeared, coastal zones eroded and infrastructure degraded. Funding plays a key role for adaptation.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Development of an implementation plan for a regional framework for achieving development resilient to climate change

18 CARICOM leaders endorsed the Regional Framework for Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change in July