Latin America and the Caribbean

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean:

Projects
70
Resources
92
Stories
118
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Quisqueya Dialogue

This project will create a capacity building hub on the island of Hispaniola to increase capacity in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Resource
23rd February 2013
Inside Story : Embedding climate change resilience in coastal city planning: Early lessons from Cartagena de Indias, Colombia This brief summarises the process that led to the creation of 'Guidelines for Adaptation to Climate Change in Cartagena de Indias', and highlights how they lay the foundation for a full municipal adaptation plan.
Feature
20th February 2013
Institutional readiness for mainstreaming climate change in El Salvador CDKN is engaged in a programme of work to support institutional readiness for mainstreaming climate change in El Salvador.
Resource
18th February 2013
WORKING PAPER: Drivers and challenges for climate compatible development This working paper considers some of the various drivers behind countries’ climate compatible development strategies and their incentives for engaging on this agenda. It also looks some of the challenges and disincentives to promoting climate compatible development reforms and considers some of the options for overcoming these.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Reframing Rio

The Reframing Rio project aims to increase global public engagement and trigger new global debates around sustainable development in the lead-up to, and beyond, the Rio +20 meeting in June 2012.

Resource
11th February 2013
POLICY BRIEF: Climate Finance: Challenges and Responses This policy brief provides CDKN’s assessment of the gaps in global knowledge and the immediate challenges for the international community in all three of these strategic priorities for climate finance.
Feature
8th February 2013
Climate Finance Advisory Service FAQs We answer questions on our Climate Finance Advisory Service (CFAS), which provides guidance to decision-makers in the most climate vulnerable countries to help them effectively participate in global climate finance negotiations.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Subnational climate compatible development - Learning from CDKN’s experience

CDKN is working on a range of initiatives to share learning from our programme to date. One of these is an initiative to capture and synthesise lessons learned from our work at the sub-national level in developing countries.

Resource
28th January 2013
Outlook : Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) Special Edition The January 2013 edition of the CDKN Newsletter focuses on Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS) and the work CDKN is undertaking with its partners in Central America, Togo, Cameroon, Southeast Asia and India.
Feature
21st January 2013
Integrating climate migration into Latin American regional forums Although migrations related to environment and climate change have been mentioned by some organizations of Latin America, the most important and deep approach to this subject comes from civil society regional forums.
Event
21st January 2013
Inside stories on climate compatible development 2013 CDKN is looking to commission a set of policy briefs on developing countries’ practical experiences in climate compatible development.
Feature
18th January 2013
El Salvador With approximately 24 percent of its total electricity production coming from geothermal resources, El Salvador is the largest producer of geothermal electricity in Central America.