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).
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, which are among the island’s most severely degraded watersheds. The water conservation measures will be part of an initiative to mainstream climate change adaptation into national and local development planning.
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.
Our air is becoming toxic due to pollution caused by fossil fuels dependence and energy inefficient buildings, among other factors. All this pollution causes serious health problems that can be magnified by the high temperatures and heat waves produced by climate change. The most affected are children, women, elderly and the poorest populations of developing countries. Now, take a deep breath before reading the following air pollution facts:
By Ana Cristina Barros * One of the tributaries of the Amazon river in Brazil forms a "meeting of the waters" so beautiful it rivals the one with the dark waters of the Rio Negro.
Mexico’s Tabasco and Chiapas states, bordering Guatemala, constitute a highly vulnerable region with high climatic risks.A comprehensive initiative to gather forest and land use data on a threatened biome in Brazil will support conservation measures and contribute to sustainable programs to mitigate GHG emissions. The project, which will be financed by the Forest Investment Program, will encourage the rational utilization of forest resources by fostering production chains of timber and non-timber forest products as well as measuring and adding value to environmental services.
The Brazil FIP Investment Plan will maximize the impact of actions being carried out by the country’s ministries of environment, science and technology, and agriculture to reduce deforestation in the Cerrado biome by improving environmental management in areas already altered by people and by producing and disseminating environmental information. The plan was endorsed by the FIP Sub-committee in May 2012. A vast savanna region that accounts for more than a fifth of Brazil’s territory, the Cerrado is home to many habitats and species as well as indigenous cultures.
