Jamaica

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Region: Jamaica

Jamaica:

Projects
4
Resources
5
Stories
9
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : GLOBE Climate Legislators Initiative - Phase 1

The GLOBE Climate Legislators (GCLI) is dedicated to advancing the legislative response to climate change in 33 key countries and by doing so to help create the political conditions for success in the UNFCCC negotiations under the Durban Platform.

Resource
26th September 2012
INSIDE STORY: Direct access to the Adaptation Fund: Lessons from accrediting NIEs in Jamaica and Senegal Jamaica and Senegal were among the first countries to accredit National Implementing Entities (NIEs) to give them direct access to the international Adaptation Fund. This case study assesses their experience and lessons for others.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Global Islands' Vulnerability Research, Adaptation, Policy and Development (GIVRAPD)

The Global Islands’ Vulnerability Research, Adaptation, Policy and Development (GIVRAPD) project will integrate scientific and local knowledge from four comparative ‘learning study’ sites in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean by using a common, community-based vulnerability assessment (CBVA) framework.

Feature
5th August 2011
Climate, energy to dominate US-Latin American relations Since the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Arturo Valenzuela, resigned via Twitter last Friday, commentators have been debating who should replace him and whether this change presents an opportunity to alter the Obama administration’s policies in the region.
Feature
14th July 2011
Green economies with social futures - a focus on the Caribbean The Rio +20 meeting in 2012 is an opportunity for global policy makers to review twenty years of action on Agenda 21 and what has been delivered. Thus far, the score-card is mixed; neither wholly positive nor wholly negative. Significant challenges lie ahead. Global food prices have escalated sharply and malnutrition is on the rise. While a recent report suggests that globally efforts to sharply reduce extreme poverty by 2015 are on track, hunger remains persistent. The triple effects of the global economic crisis i.e. the weakening of the insurance sector, lower demand for exports and reduced remittances have exposed the fragility of economies and households alike.
Resource
14th December 2010
In conversation... with Indi McLymont-Lafayette, PANOS Caribbean CDKN speaks with Indi McLymont-Lafayette, Regional Director of Community, Media & Environment at PANOS Caribbean. Indi discusses the impacts of climate change in Jamaica and the role of Panos to communicate development issues and knowledge gaps in the region.