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Displaying 75 of about 306 resultsA declaration adopted by the Member States of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) on September 27, 2012, on the sidelines of the 67th United Nations General Assembly, calling for urgent action to address the climate change crisis which Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are already experiencing with impacts such as sea-level rise and storm su…
The Marshall Islands could be underwater by 2035. Extreme storms have battered The Bahamas. Rising temperatures have hollowed out fisheries critical to Kiribati and Tuvalu.
Small island nations are facing some of the most extreme consequences from a climate crisis that they have done little to create. In fact, the Alliance of Small Island States…
This study assesses the national and regional data systems on migration, environment, disasters and climate change in Grenada. The study is part of a series entitled "Migration, Environment, Disaster and Climate Change Data in the Eastern Caribbean" which is based on a regional study assessing the national and regional data systems on migration, en…
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Migración, Medio Ambiente y Cambio Climático: Serie de Notas de Políticas, Número 7, Vol. 1, Noviembre de 2015:
Los flujos migratorios siempre han caracterizado la historia de la República Dominicana. La migración interna es un fenómeno significativo en el país. Sin embargo, aunque la República Dominicana sea uno de los países con mayor vul…
This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications. It also identifies gaps and opportunities for scaling up and enhancing collaboration.
The Adaptat…
This paper analyses flows of climate finance to Cape Verde, the Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, the Maldives, Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe, and the Seychelles. This report highlights important trends in the allocation of climate finance across the region. Complementary analysis to evaluate the actual outcomes of climate finance for communities in the Indian…
This research paper uses statistical meta-analysis to summarise the results of all 16 Effectiveness Reviews carried out under the theme of resilience between 2011 and 2015. Oxfam’s Effectiveness Reviews evaluate the impact of the organization’s projects on the lives of those they are intended to help.
The paper finds that projects evaluated had a…
La movilidad humana asociada a, o derivada de los desastres y efectos adversos del cambio climático viene recibiendo un interés importante en los últimos años en Centroamérica. Este informe contribuye a un mayor conocimiento de la evidencia sobre la vinculación entre movilidad humana, medio ambiente, desastres y cambio climático mediante un mapeo realiz…
For decades, social scientists have attempted to reveal the real causes behind disasters. While some scholars have recently focused almost exclusively on people's vulnerabilities, the majority recognize that disasters result from a combination of people's choices and hazards. Agencies and government officials, on the other hand, have often downplay…
With support from ProVention, IFRC and OAS developed a set of 6 non-technical manuals aimed at promoting community-based disaster risk reduction activities in the following fields:
School Maintenance
Disaster Mitigation of Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Systems (in collaboration with PAHO and UNICEF)
Natural Hazards and School Shelter…
This paper presents a systematic approach to assess the protective role of coral reefs and to examine solutions based on the reef's influence on wave propagation patterns. Portions of the shoreline of Grenville Bay, Grenada, have seen acute shoreline erosion and coastal flooding. This paper (i) analyzes the historical changes in the shoreline and the lo…
This study summarises a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Survey that addressed climate change awareness and education in Guyana.
In addressing sustainable climate change adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk programming it is vital that where there are significant gaps in knowledge, attitude and behavioral practices amongst Gu…
Press release: 2012/004/SDN
Countries get $534 million for bold plans to climate-proof water, farming, forests, and cities
Cape Town - The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), a partnership of five multilateral development banks, approved $444 million in grants and near-zero-interest loans to support Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, St. Lucia, and Zambia in t…
En entrevistas exclusivas para Milenio, ministros de Panamá, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras y Colombia hablan sobre cómo sus países aminorar los efectos del Cambio Climático. Leidi Urbina, enlace técnico del Consejo Agropecuario de Belize, dijo que "vine a la reunión porque el Cambio Climático ya es un fenómeno mundial y todos tenemos que pon…
"Educational guides for community training in disaster risk management, prepared by Cuban scientists, are presently applied in Nicaragua," according to Doctor Fernando Guasch, from the National Center for Seismologic Research (CENAIS), reported Cuba News. The training materials were written as part of the Program for the Management of Knowledge about Di…