Latin America and the Caribbean

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean:

Projects
70
Resources
92
Stories
118
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.
News
18th January 2013
Report points a global increase of investments for water protection During 2011 US$ 8.170 million were invested in programs to protect drinking water and water supplies through the care of vegetation in water basins.
Feature
15th January 2013
Sub-national climate compatible development, learning from CDKN's experience Opportunity to become CDKN’s learning partner for sub-national climate compatible development projects
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Supporting risk-based decision-making in the Caribbean (CARIWIG)

The CARIWIG project aims to provide unbiased, locally relevant information on the weather impacts of climate change for a range of time horizons.

Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Payments for environmental services as a driver of climate compatible development

Cooperative agreements for ecosystem services have become increasingly important tools for reducing conflicts. These agreements include voluntary cooperation, corporate-private agreements and Payments for Environmental Services (PES – also known as Payments for Ecosystem Services). Countries as diverse as Costa Rica, Mexico, and China are using national tax revenues to pay citizens to conserve forests and natural vegetation. National forest conservation PES schemes seem perfect precursors for national REDD (Reduced Emissions from Degradation and Deforestation) schemes given their economies of scale for equitable disbursement of benefits to providers of public goods.

Feature
4th January 2013
Erratic rainfall makes the future uncertain Kevin Henry, Project Manager of CARE’s 'Where the Rain Falls' project interviews farmer and research participant Napandaela Nicodemu, about what it means to live with uncertain rainfall.