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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, ChristineGomes, CharmaineAlleyne, DillonPhillips, WillardAn 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, RamónGomes, CharmaineAlleyne, DillonPhillips, WillardAn 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, WinstonGomes, CharmaineAlleyne, DillonPhillips, WillardAn assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the tourism sector in the Caribbean

The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) agenda for sustainable development has as its foundation the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA 1994), the Mauritius Strategy for Further Implementation of the BPoA (MSI 2005) and more recently the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway 2014...


Dubrie, ArtieBello, OmarPhillips, WillardThorne, ElizabethAlleyne, DillonProposal for a revitalized Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee - Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Sustainable Development (CDCC-RCM): Repositioning CDCC-RCM as the mechanism for sustainable development in Caribbean small island developing States (SIDS)

Phillips, WillardThorne, ElizabethReport of the expert group meeting to consider an analysis of the art and craft sector and its potential for sustainable tourism development 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, SharonGomes, CharmaineAlleyne, DillonPhillips, WillardAn 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, TroyGomes, CharmaineAlleyne, DillonPhillips, WillardAn assessment of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the Coastal and Marine Sector in the Caribbean

Emanuel, ElizabethAlleyne, DillonPhillips, WillardAn assessment of fiscal and regulatory barriers to the deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in Saint Lucia

This report was prepared at the request of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with support from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) to assess strategies for linking the ECLAC Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) Methology to the P...


Robinson, JamellPhillips, WillardAssessment of strategies for linking the damage and loss assessment methodology to the post-disaster needs assessment

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