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This climate risk profile concerns the countries of the Eastern and Souther Caribbean (ESC).
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The State of the Climate Report analyzes Surinames historical climate (1990-2014) and provides climate projections for three time horizons (2020-2044, 2045-2069, 2070-2094) through two emissions scenarios (intermediate/ SSP2-4.5 and severe/ SSP5-8.5)

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This desk review aims at evaluating gender-responsive disaster preparedness and recovery efforts in the nine CFR Caribbean countries.
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UNICEF's Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office and CDEMA signed a MoU to co-operate on the development of more resilient communities.
United Nations Children's Fund - The Americas and Caribbean Regional Office
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This paper argues that there is a need for a new policy framing that Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) investment is imperative that will generate dividends for governments and society at large. Under the auspice of the Sendai Framework for disaster risk

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Suriname's NAP will align the country's future efforts with the broad objectives of the UNFCCC and outline actionable groundwork for the integration of climate change considerations into national strategic and sectoral planning and budgeting processes.
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Amid the recent fires that burned down thousands of square miles of the jungle, seven Amazonian countries signed a pact to protect the Amazon.
Thomson Reuters
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More than 350,000 people living in vulnerable settlements in the Greater Paramaribo area of Suriname will benefit from a U.S. $35 million flood risk management project. The investment will improve drainage infrastructure and strengthen the Saramacca Canal system, the most important drainage system for the central and western areas of Paramaribo.
World Bank, the

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