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Displaying 75 of about 102 resultsOn World Humanitarian Day, learn how UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica is supporting The Bahamas in making Early Warning Systems accessible and inclusive of the needs, perspectives and priorities of persons with disabilities, so no one will be left behind in times of disaster.When Hurricane Dorian finally passed over the Bahamas archipelago in 2019,…
GENEVA, 15 June 2012 - As the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season kicks off, all 16 member governments of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) have committed for the sixth year in a row to renew their hurricane and earthquake insurance for 2012-2013 and earned themselves a 25% premium rebate.
The 16 countries and territories are Anguill…
This WHO/PAHO UNFCCC health and climate change country profile for the Bahamas 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 moni…
The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, to be preceded by activities related to the conference from 28 to 30 August 2014, also in Apia, Samoa. It will focus the world’s attention on a group of countries that remain a special case for sustainable development in view of t…
The Government of The Bahamas has prepared this national policy for adaptation to climate change. Specifically, it provides an assessment of the degree of vulnerability of The Bahamas to the projected impacts of climate change by sectors; of the capacity for adaptation to anthropogenic climate change; and proposes strategies for anticipating and amelior…
“The prediction for an average hurricane season is no reason to become complacent and not prepare,” cautioned Jeremy Collymore, Coordinator of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) at the Annual Press Conference, held today (June 2) at the CDERA Coordinating Unit (CU) in Barbados.
Compared to last year’s predictions for a very activ…
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in tandem with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched the Caribbean Component of a four-year project designed to build capacity for CARIFORUM countries in complying with the implementation of Multi-lateral Environmental Agree…
Even before Hurricane Joaquin’s catastrophic flooding of South Carolina in October, the storm had hit ten islands of The Bahamas with brute force. On Crooked Island, 85 percent of the homes were destroyed. Over 36 hours, the storm rested menacingly over the islands, closing airports as well as destroying communications and electrical infrastructure, acc…
This report assesses the specific needs of the sixteen member countries of the Facility to determine how each of the countries views the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a regional catastrophe fund for Caribbean governments designed to limit the financial impact of devastating hurricanes and earthquakes by quickly providing financ…
Climate change and population growth are degrading coastal ecosystems and increasing risks to communities and infrastructure. Reliance on seawalls and other types of hardened shorelines is unsustainable in an era of rising seas, given the costs to build and maintain these structures and their unintended consequences on ecosystems. This is especially tr…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, – The World Bank and International Monetary Fund have been told that recent experience in the Caribbean is a reminder that that poverty reduction is even more difficult in societies facing disasters, shocks and crises, whether natural, environmental or economic.
“Poor families suffer the brunt of catastrophe and face the greatest…
By James Cosgrove, RMS Event Response team
Initial reports from the Bahamas suggest that the islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama have been left devastated from Major Hurricane Dorian, evoking memories of the destruction on the eastern Caribbean island of Barbuda in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Irma just two years ago.
A record-breaking hu…
By UN Humanitarian
Unfathomable devastation has become the signature of powerful storms such as Hurricane Dorian, which tore through the Abaco and Grand Bahama islands of the Bahamas in early September.
As far as the eye can see, lush forests seem to have been scorched, homes razed to the ground, roads and bridges disintegrated into ta…
By Asako Okai and Luis Felipe López-Calva
Catastrophic winds and storm surge have long since receded in the Bahamas, but the devastation caused by this summer’s Category Five Hurricane Dorian, the strongest in the country’s history, has left the islands staggering.
In Abaco and Grand Bahama there is rubble as far as the eye can see. Th…
Hurricane Dorian, the strongest hurricane on record to hit the Bahamas, made landfall on Elbow Cay, east of Grand Abaco, on 1 September 2019. For three days, the category 5 storm battered Abaco and Grand Bahama, causing catastrophic damage and destroying houses that could not withstand such intensities.
This study is based on a qual…