The investment plan for Haiti’s Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR) presents a strategy for climate change adaption and identifies four initiatives that will be administered collaboratively by the IDB and the World Bank. The country’s SPCR was endorsed by the PPRC Sub-Committee during its last meeting in Washington, DC, in May 2013. The plan’s objective is to … [Read more...] about Adaptation Initiatives in Agriculture and Infrastructure in Haiti
Private Sector and Community Groups Carry Out Adaptation Projects
An IDB program to provide loans and grant financing to Jamaican private sector groups and community-based organizations for initiatives to reduce their risk to natural disasters and adapt to the impacts of climate change will be carried out with financing from the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). Examples of initiatives that would be financed by the PPCR … [Read more...] about Private Sector and Community Groups Carry Out Adaptation Projects
An Adaptation Program that Focuses on Water Resources
Low-income farmers in Jamaica will implement a comprehensive set of water storage and conservation measures to conserve water and soil resources and increase resilience to climate change in an IDB project financed by the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). The project will be carried out in vulnerable sections of the Jamaica’s Rio Minho and Rio Bueno River Basins, … [Read more...] about An Adaptation Program that Focuses on Water Resources
Comprehensive Strategy to Identify Measures for Reducing Climate Change Impacts
Jamaica will design a broad-based strategy for reducing the economic and social effects of severe weather events and other climate change impacts in an IDB knowledge and capacity building initiative financed by the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). Jamaica’s size and geographic location make it particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. More extreme … [Read more...] about Comprehensive Strategy to Identify Measures for Reducing Climate Change Impacts
Pink drones out of control over the Andes!
No, this is not some military project aimed at equipping wildlife with lethal capabilities. The project is actually harmless. It seeks to increase our knowledge of flamingo flight patterns in southern Bolivia, with the ultimate goal of better locating future infrastructure development in the region. To achieve that, we joined a group of field ornithologists to equip five adult … [Read more...] about Pink drones out of control over the Andes!