Latin America and the Caribbean

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean:

Projects
70
Resources
92
Stories
118
News
18th November 2015
Bridging the green growth gap in Costa Rica Today, ODI releases a new report assessing whether Costa Rica has achieved the green growth outcomes that its policies were designed to achieve. Authors Ilmi Granoff; Monica Araya, Philipp Ulbrich, Sam Pickard and Caroline Haywood introduce the report, which was co-sponsored by CDKN.
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13th November 2015
Climate compatible development in cities : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean Maria Jose Pacha, Knowledge and Networks Coordinator for CDKN in Latin America and the Caribbean, shares lessons learned that were developed in a knowledge-exchange event in Quito in July 2015. Ten projects implementing climate compatible development in cities in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Belize and Jamaica presented their work and reflected on their achievements and challenges.
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5th November 2015
Synergies: A way to respond to the complexity of climate change Paula Ellinger da Fonseca, Regional Climate Change Manager at Fundación Avina, joins the Low Emission Development Strategies Latin America and Caribbean (LEDS LAC) annual event and is inspired to hear of the many possible synergies between climate adaptation and mitigation actions.
Event
23rd October 2015
The water, energy and food nexus in Amazonia and Indonesia: Managing resource trade-offs across sectors and scales Did you miss the CDKN and Global Canopy Programme webinar on the water-energy-food nexus? Catch the recording here and find out how the 'nexus' of natural resource trade-offs affects different interest groups and governance in Amazonia and Indonesia.
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21st October 2015
Creating knowledge together to face climate change Maria Jose Pacha, CDKN’s Knowledge and Networks Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, reflects on how we all need to exchange experiences and learn from others to advance effective strategies to address climate change.
Resource
5th October 2015
Inside story: Assessing carbon and water footprints in Andean cities The capital cities of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru are vulnerable to climate change, partly due to their dependence on water from retreating Andean glaciers. This comparative Inside Story by Miguel Rodríguez Tejerina of Servicios Ambientales highlights the challenges, enabling factors, lessons learned and implications for climate compatible development - as illustrated by a project to assess the cities’ carbon and water footprints.
Event
30th September 2015
Cities are moving ahead on climate compatible development Maria Jose Pacha, CDKN's Knowledge and Networks Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, will provide insights into how city leaders are designing and delivering on climate compatible development. She will share experience and examples from ten CDKN-supported projects across the region.
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29th September 2015
New learning project will explore how to scale up local successes in climate compatible development Mairi Dupar of CDKN introduces a new learning initiative that will explore and document some of the 'ingredients' for scaling up successful pilot projects in climate compatible development.
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25th September 2015
Colombia’s national climate pledge: Towards the Paris Summit Claudia Martinez is CDKN's Senior Strategic Advisor for Colombia and also advises the national government on green growth. Here, she reports on the scope and significance of Colombia's national climate pledge in the run-up to the critical United Nations Summit in Paris in December.
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21st September 2015
Climate resilience and economic resilience go hand in hand Policy-makers should tackle the twin opportunities of climate resilience and economic resilience together, argue Adrianna Kocornik-Mina and Sam Fankhauser of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change.
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Project
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Project : Planning for Climate Change (PlanCC) - Phase II

The goal of Phase II is to contribute to the design and development of public policies, tools and methodologies for developing low greenhouse gas emissions.

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9th September 2015
Coordinating climate action between the national and the local level This blog looks at how integrating and coordinating national and subnational initiatives can scale up sustainable urban transportation initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean.