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Displaying 30 of about 236 resultsClimate change impacts pose huge risks to transportation, threatening global trade and development. Now is the time to adapt.
Hundreds of lives lost. More than 8,000 people stuck overnight in a flooded airport in Japan in the wake of a typhoon in 2018.
Nearly 800% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Dutch island of St. Maarten (and 600% of the…
Costa Rica has significantly strengthened its institutional and legal framework for disaster risk management (DRM) and has further anchored and mainstreamed DRM into National Development and Investment Programs. The country has strategically used a World Bank contingency loan to buffer the social and overall fiscal impacts of three natural disasters and…
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. CCRIF SPC and the World Bank are pleased to announce that on July 1, the Facility issued the Caribbean Oceans and Aquaculture Sustainability FaciliTy (COAST) fisheries parametric insurance policy to two of its member governments – Grenada and Saint Lucia. The COAST insurance policies provide coverage for fisherfolk and…
By Becky Alexis-Martin, Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University; James Dyke, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter; Jonathon Turnbull, PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge; and Stephanie Malin, Associate Professor at Colorado State University
The evidence of the climate crisis is now undeniable. But state responses to…
By Agustín Carbó
With hurricane season upon us again, I am reminded of the lessons learned after the devastation we went through in 2017, when thousands of people in Puerto Rico went without electricity for nearly a year after Hurricane Maria made landfall on the island. Many communities had limited access to clean water, food and health services.…
The Asian Development Bank's response to Cyclone Gita was the first test of the Pacific Disaster Resilience (PDR) Program set up to help island states such as Tonga get back on their feet after natural calamities, says a new ADB publication.
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Set up in December 2017, the PDR program allocates $15 million in policy-based loans and Asi…
Residents of Valerie Lorde Avenue can look forward to safer access to their community in heavy rains now that the Riviere Mitant Development Committee has completed a series of drainage works in that area.
The improvement works are expected to reduce the water on the road, reduce erosion and protect the road surface.
Through support from Canada, the R…
By Charnele Henry
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says that Jamaica’s hosting of the Seventh Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean (RP20) in 2020 is a significant achievement.
Aside from the Regional Platform being held in the region for the first time, Jamaica was…
♪ Water come inna mi room
Huh huh!
Mi sweep out some with mi broom
Di likkle dog laugh to see such fun
And di dish run away with the spoon ♪
It was catchy, it was humorous, it was enjoyed by persons as far as Nicaragua, however, it spoke to a very serious subject. It was a song about Hurricane Gilbert and the devastation wrought upon Jamaica in 19…
More than 200 community members in Dominica received emergency preparedness training from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on the eve of start of the Atlantic hurricane season. The training activities include topics such as first aid, fire safety, community emergency response training (CERT), gender-based violence, psyc…
Por Patricia Grogg
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Existe una probabilidad moderada de que se forme un huracán en el mar Caribe (46 por ciento) y el peligro de que Cuba sea afectada por al menos uno de estos fenómenos atmosféricos. “El pronóstico es un basamento estadístico, nadie sabe dónde va a surgir un ciclón“, alertó, sin embargo, la meteoróloga Miriam Teresita Llanes.
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By Ainsworth Morris
The Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) and the World Bank have signed a contract for the design, supply and installation of a new S-Band Doppler Weather Radar in Jamaica.
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, Director Gener…
By Angelica Salele-Sefo
Suva, Fiji — In 2015, Tropical Cyclone Pam located near Vanuatu, over 1,000 kms away from Tuvalu, yet it caught Tuvalu unaware as it wreaked havoc in all of its nine islands. This has led to the development of forecasting model software to help ensure this never happens again.
Wave-drive inundation is very complex.…
By Melanius Alphonse
Following hurricanes Erika and Maria’s devastation to Dominica, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit became a beacon of hope and rose to the challenge not only to ensure that more than 5,000 Dominicans will be able to relocate into new homes, but he also embarked on an ambitious goal to ensure that Dominica becomes the world’s first cl…
Rarotonga, Cook Islands — Just last week in the presence of the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, Pacific Island Forum Leaders reiterated that climate change is the single greatest threat to our Blue Pacific. Given this threat, it is imperative to enable early disaster preparedness action when early warnings are received.
This we…