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Displaying 15 of about 33 resultsThe present systematization carried out by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) compiles Good Practices in Post-disaster Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the aim of spreading and highlighting the work and recovery processes that are coming taking place in different countries of the region. This systematization compiles some goo…
This declaration maintains the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) as a body for consultation, concerted action, co-operation while stressing the relevance of its work in the domains of trade, sustainable tourism, transport, disaster risk reduction, and therefore agrees that the best way to tackle this vulnerability is by incorporating comprehensive d…
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. It targets medium-level weather extremes (e.g. hurricanes and droughts) through five goals: (i) hel…
This report presents the findings of an assessment undertaken by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) during 2010-2011 which assessed the institutional and technical capacities and needs of the Caribbean region to support Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) and risk assessment. The findings provide the foundation for future capacity develo…
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…
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…
Press Release 10-176: NSF Awards Grant for Continuously Operating Caribbean GPS Natural Hazards Observational Network
COCONet will transform understanding of earthquakes, hurricanes in vulnerable region
How can we better understand and assess seismic and other natural hazards in the Caribbean and Central America?
What are the slip rates along active…
Up to half a million people in the Pacific will lose their homes and their countries to rising sea levels because small island nations cannot persuade the rest of the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently, campaigners say.
The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is calling for a significant reduction in global emissions so the world…
En el marco del proyecto regional de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (UNISDR), bajo el Plan de Acción DIPECHO 2013-2014 para el Caribe, financiado por la Dirección General de Ayuda Humanitaria y Protección Civil de la Comisión Europea (ECHO), once países del Caribe desarrollan o actualizan el denominado “Docum…
This report reviews information on drought characteristics and management in the Caribbean region, identifies the relevant national and regional agencies and focal points involved in drought management, and brings together information on their work at national and regional level.
Climate-related hazards are the most frequently occurring natural hazards…
This paper critically reviews the ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to climate change in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS), focusing on the need to integrate local and external knowledge. An analysis of current EbA in the Caribbean is undertaken alongside a review of methodologies used to integrate local and external expertise for EbA. F…
The last two decades have seen intense global actions towards increasing the profile of disaster risk reductions in development planning and practice. Following the actions initiated by the United Nations in its International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (1990-2000), two world conferences have taken place; in Yokohama (1994) and in Kobe (2005),…