Latest additions to the knowledge base

This profile provides an overview of climate risk issues in the Amazon Basin, including how climate change will potentially impact ecosystems, water, agriculture, health, infrastructure, and tourism.

The profile summarizes how climate change will potentially impact six key sectors across the region: coastal resources, human health, water resources, tourism, fisheries, and agriculture.

The updated Suriname Country Document on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) analyses the status of disaster risk reduction at the district and community levels, namely the two districts of Para and Commewijne, and pilots the Criteria to Identify Key Actions

This study discusses dynamics and drivers of the Zika epidemic in Latin America in order to assess longer-term risks and prioritise interventions. The transmissibility of the infection, the generation time and large-scale connectivity of human populations

The Country Document on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is envisioned to become a national reference for policy design and decision making for interventions on DRR.

This new publication from the World Meteorological Organization provides a wide-ranging description of how small island States and territories in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific regions are using seasonal predictions and other climate information

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency is introducing a new awards scheme to recognise distinction in reducing disaster risk including the Jeremy Collymore Award for Research in Disaster Response and Disaster Risk Management.

Minister of Foreign Affairs for Dominica, Francine Baron, spoke to the UN General Assembly about the recent devastation caused by Tropical Storm Erika and urged the international community to take action on climate change. Ms. Baron also noted the upcoming climate change conference in Paris, saying her country expected all parties to 'heed the warnings of the scientific community and make a serious commitment'...