Trinidad and Tobago

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This paper explains the excess rainfall parametric insurance product of the CCRIF and Swiss Re Excess Rainfall, which helps to mitigate the short-term cash flow problems small developing economies suffer after major natural disasters.
Cover and source: Government of Trinidad and Tobago
This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UNFCCC’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications.

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in in the Caribbean, covering the countries of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint

Cover and source: Government of Trinidad and Tobago
This policy aims to provide policy guidance for the development of an appropriate administrative and legislative framework, in harmony with other sectoral policies, for the pursuance of a low-carbon development path for Trinidad and Tobago.

This poster describes the setting for the Caribbean drought of 2009-10 and its impacts. It provides lessons learned that include a need for improvements in rainfall forecasting and monitoring and a coodinated effort between multiple stakeholder to

This brochure presents the products combining risk reduction and insurance for low income groups such as small-holding farmers and day labourers that will be designed and implemented by the Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean programme

This document describes drought and precipitation monitoring in the Caribbean. It explains the roles of the The Caribbean Drought and Precipitation Monitoring Network, established to improve the management of water resources and aid in planning and

This paper looks at how climate change will impact small islands like Tobago, that heavily depend on tourism. It attempts to calculate the cost of the impact in economic terms, urging for the need to use and expand new forms of economic analysis to

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