Latin America and the Caribbean

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean:

Projects
70
Resources
92
Stories
118
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Completed
Project
Completed
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.

Feature
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.
Feature
28th August 2015
Quito: A local government at work to achieve climate compatible urban development Alice Reil, ICLEI European Secretariat, reports from a learning exchange organised by CDKN and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability in Quito, Ecuador in late July. The gathering kicked off a new learning endeavour among the organisations and their partners to understand the success factors for delivering and scaling up climate compatible development from the local level.
Completed
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Completed
Project : Analysing the competitiveness and co-benefits of Peru's PlanCC

Peru is developing a national climate change mitigation plan, called the Planning for Climate Change Project (PlanCC). It is based on the Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) methodology, with the aim to contribute to the country’s sustainable development through a long-term transition into a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy.

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
10th August 2015
Green growth and climate compatible development - how do they translate at local level? Claudia Martinez, CDKN’s senior strategic advisor for Colombia, outlines some of the hottest debates around environment, human development and sustainability issues in Easter Antioquia, one of Colombia’s most inequitable regions – and finds no easy answers.