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Displaying 30 of about 129 resultsThe Caribbean island of Barbuda still bears the battle scars of its most brutal encounter with climate change. In 2017, Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 leviathan of unprecedented power, roared across its pristine turquoise waters.The island’s only storm shelter collapsed, with 300 people hiding inside. Around 95 per cent of Barbuda’s buildings were wrecked…
The Model Safe School Programme (MSSP) is designed to assist Participating States with implementing processes that result in safer and greener educational facilities. Its Toolkit comprises a policy that can be adopted by governments and Ministries of Education, tools for assessing the level of safety and greenness of schools, a template Emergency/Disast…
The Caribbean Safe School Ministerial Forum will be held 3 - 4 April 2017 in Antigua and Barbuda. This Forum aims to identify national and joint regional achievements and priorities regarding school safety and raise awareness of the Worldwide Initiative on Safe Schools (WISS) in the Caribbean. The objective is to have Ministers of Education come to…
This Adaptation Communication (ADCOM) is Antigua and Barbuda’s first ADCOM to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is being submitted in compliance with the
reporting requirements under the Paris Agreement and its Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). It captures information on the key climatic drivers and their impact…
This WHO UNFCCC health and climate change country profile for Antigua and Barbuda provides a summary of available evidence on climate hazards, health vulnerabilities, health impacts and progress to date in health sector efforts to realize a climate-resilient health system. The WHO and UNFCCC Health and Climate Change Country Profile Project monitors the…
This document outlines a project led by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to support the OECS to develop, prepare to implement, and finance an Eastern Caribbean Climate Change Implementation Plan. The project considers both mitigation and adaptation measures to support large scale emission reductions and improved climate resilience across OECS Memb…
Since its establishment, the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) has organized four Summits of Heads of State and Government, which took place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in August 1995; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in April 1999; Margarita Island, Venezuela, in December 2001; and Panama City, Republic of Panama, in July 2005.
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The event will discuss climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the Carribean.
In 2009 the Government of the Republic of Colombia under the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and supported by the Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation, (ACCION SOCIAL), and the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), started the Colombian Cooperation Strategy with the Caribbean Basin, initiative that ai…
A 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…
On September 6, 2017, Hurricane Irma hit the Islands of Barbuda and Antigua with catastrophic effects. Hurricane Irma made landfall as a category 5 storm (Saffir-Simpson scale). Compounding the situation, on September 18, Hurricane Maria (also a category 5 storm) affected the island of Antigua. Although Hurricane Maria did not make landfall, Antigua was…
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 report summarizes the resilience situation in Antigua and Barbuda. The territory of the country is characterized by flat islands. While many recent development indicators show strong economic performance based on a strong tourism sector, the country still struggles with poverty, economic inequality, and unemployment. Antigua and Barbuda experi…
This report presents a study on the cost benefit analyses and cost effectiveness analysis of community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions in the Caribbean. The DRR interventions, implemented by the International Federation of Red Cross, Port of Spain, in three Caribbean countries, Jamaica, Antigua & Barbuda, and Suriname, comprised th…
This document charts the initial formation of Hurricane Irma in the Atlantic Ocean in late August 2017 and tracks its development as the storm moved towards the Caribbean in September.
It presents the exposed values for the affected countries, including the states of Florida and Georgia in the USA, and compares them to estimated economic losses d…