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Displaying 30 of about 102 resultsAs new hurricanes gain strength in the Atlantic, residents of the Bahamas have barely begun recovering from destroyed villages and flooded streets brought by Hurricane Dorian’s battering this month. The losses were grim validation of a new Stanford-led study on coastal risk throughout the country.
The study predicts a tripling of storm-related damages…
Captain Stephen Russell, Director of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) recently attended the Sixth Meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) in Bridgetown, Barbados.
During the meeting held April 16-17, 2015, CDEMA provided an overview of the 2014-2024 Comprehensive Disaster…
By Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
At least seven people have died in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, although that figure is expected to rise as rescue work continues.
Dorian began life as a small tropical depression southeast of the Lesser Antilles on August 24, 2019, a…
The Bahamas and its new Prime Minister have entered this year’s hurricane season better equipped for an above-normal hurricane forecast in addition to the ongoing challenges posed by climate change in the region.
Thanks to the completion of the island country’s National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment (NDPBA), conducted in partnership with th…
2015 will be an exciting year for the conference. As the theme suggests, this forum will be the first checkpoint for reporting on the progress made after two years of the implementation of the 2014-2024 Caribbean Comprehensive Disaster Management Strategy. Consequently, a number of new initiatives will be unveiled. These include the Monitoring, Evaluati…
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.
This y…
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…
This three-day international expert meeting focuses on the challenges that climate change poses to education systems in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). SIDS are among the most vulnerable countries with regard to climate change and are already confronted with its effects, including rising sea levels and changes in climate extremes such as droughts…
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…
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…
The Plan of Action of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), agreed upon at the 5th Summit of the Heads of State and/or Government of the Association of Caribbean States, addresses five main themes: (i) sustainable tourism; (ii) trade development and external economic relations; (iii) transport; (iv) disaster risk reduction; and (v) education, cultu…
This paper explains the excess rainfall parametric insurance product of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and Swiss Re Excess Rainfall (XSR), which helps to mitigate the short-term cash flow problems small developing economies suffer after major natural disasters. The product is aimed primarily at extreme high rainfall events of…
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This paper explains the parametric insurance system of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) in the event of a hurricane or an earthquake. The paper explains the differences between parametric insurance systems and indemnity-based systems, how payments are calculated, and the CCRIB catastrophe model.…
By Stefanie Afonso, Policy Analyst, Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience, UNDP Crisis Bureau
Imagine you are on holiday, sunbathing on a white sand beach, sipping fresh coconut water while looking at the magnificent clear water. The temperature is prefect, people are smiling, you are in paradise.
Now imagine the most inten…