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This climate risk profile concerns the countries of the Eastern and Souther Caribbean (ESC).
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Small island developing states have long managed to respond nimbly in the face of continual change — a challenge that will be magnified by climate change. In this study, the authors present a model that can help inform responses to future climate impacts

Compendium of good practice on post disaster recovery in the Latin America and Caribbean Region
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This compendium presents good practices in post-disaster recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean in order to spread and highlight the work and recovery processes taking place in different countries of the region.
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The Barbados Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Country Work Programme (CWP) 2019-2023 aims to increase the country’s resilience by strengthening national systems and processes for emergency and disaster risk management.
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This paper constructs a model of climate-related damage for small island developing states (SIDS). The authors focus on the loss of private productive capital stocks through extreme climate events. In contrast to most economic analyses of climate impacts

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This roadmap is developed from work undertaken on integrated climate risk management through the “Advancing Climate Risk Insurance plus” (ACRI+) project implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Munich

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The project ‘Strengthening resilience and coping capacities in the Caribbean through integrated early warning systems’ was aimed at reducing the vulnerability of communities facing multiple hazard risks in Caribbean small islands. This goal was achieved

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Given the exposure of the Caribbean Region to natural hazards, an ICRM approach could play an important role in ensuring climate resilient development of a renewables-based energy system. Not only across intervention levels on a national scale from

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