Management of Caribbean Climate Change Research Projects

CARIBSAVE’s wealth of expertise puts it not only at the forefront of work in climate change in the Caribbean, but also at the centre of efforts to conduct climate research in the Caribbean.

In November 2011, The CARIBSAVE Partnership was selected by the Climate Development Knowledge Network, as the managing partner of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network in an initiative to support climate change research in the Caribbean and to help decision-makers design and deliver climate-compatible development.

Through a process of inviting research proposals and rigorously evaluating them against a set of criteria, CARIBSAVE and an international expert panel selected five research projects to receive a total of US$480,000 in funding from the UK’s Department for International Development and the Netherlands’ Directorate-General for International Cooperation.  These are:

1. "Participatory research to enhance climate change policy and institutions in the Caribbean: ARIA tool pilot” being implemented by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute.


2. "Assessing the potential impacts of climate change on Belize’s water resources” being implemented by the Environmental Research Institute of the University of Belize.


3. “Climate Change and inland flooding in Jamaica, risk and adaptation measures for vulnerable communities” being implemented by the Department of  Geography and  Geology, Mona Campus, University of the West Indies.


4. "Identifying opportunities for climate compatible tourism development in Belize” being implemented by the World Wildlife Fund Belize.


5. “Climate Impacts and Resilience in Caribbean Agriculture: Assessing the consequences of climate change on cocoa and tomato production in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica”  - being jointly implemented by the Department of Geography and Geology, Mona Campus and the Department of Life Sciences, St. Augustine Campus, both of the University of the West Indies.

The range of outcomes from this two-year initiative will include case studies of activities which are compatible with climate change, planning and practice in a range of countries and contexts as well as academic peer-reviewed papers.

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For more information contact: Judi Clarke, judi.clarke@caribsave.org

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