Climate change affects the fundamental bases of good human health, which are clean air, safe drinking
water, sufficient food, and secure shelter. Climate change is known to impact health through three
climate dimensions: extreme heat, natural disasters, and infections and diseases. The temporal a...
Clarke, Christine
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the health sector in the Caribbean
The present report assesses the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, ...
Martín, Ramón
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the energy sector in the Caribbean
There are significant, fundamental changes taking place in global air and sea surface temperatures and sea levels. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that many of the warmest years on the instrumental record of global surface temperatures have occu...
Moore, Winston
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the tourism sector in the Caribbean
The main objective of the present study was to determine the value of impacts due to climate change on the agricultural sector in the Caribbean under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A2 and B2 scenarios. More specifically, the study aimed to eval...
Hutchinson, Sharon
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector in the Caribbean
Climate change poses special challenges for Caribbean decision makers related to the uncertainties inherent in future climate projections and the complex linkages between climate change, physical and biological systems,
and socioeconomic sectors. At present, however, the Caribbean subregion lacks...
Lorde, Troy
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Gomes, Charmaine
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Alleyne, Dillon
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Phillips, Willard
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An assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the Coastal and Marine Sector in the Caribbean
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Accelerated Modalities of Action Pathway (hereafter referred to as the SAMOA Pathway) was adopted in 2014 at the United Nations Third International Conference on SIDS. The SAMOA Pathway builds on the 1994 Barbados Programme of Action for SIDS (BPOA) and ...
Dubrie, Artie
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Thorne, Elizabeth
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Fontes de Meira, Luciana
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Bello, Omar
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Phillips, Willard
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Synthesis of the Caribbean subregion midterm review report of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway