Global State of National Urban Policy 2024
<p>With global population increasingly concentrating in urban areas, cities are driving national economic growth, while also grappling with challenges such as inequalities, affordable housing shortages,
Caribbean
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Panorama of food security and nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017
The total number of persons that suffer from hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean has increased, reversing decades of progress, even as overweight and obesity emerged as a major problem in all countries
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Climate finance in the Caribbean region’s Small Island Developing States
The Caribbean region’s Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face considerable threats from climate change, and considerable costs to cope with and adapt to climate impacts that exceed their financial
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Critical success factors for resilient water infrastructure
Incorporating climate risk management into infrastructure planning and design is critical to building societal resilience and protecting economic growth. As pressures grow to build new infrastructure to
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Mainstreaming climate compatible development
CDKN’s flagship book, Mainstreaming Climate Compatible Development, draws from the alliance’s seven year experience of supporting climate compatible development in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Driving, connecting and communicating: the many roles of national government in climate adaptation planning
This information brief discusses how policy and governance arrangements at the national level are vital for climate adaptation in the Caribbean. Local action is important but is insufficient in isolation.
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Climate impacts on agriculture and tourism: the case for climate resilient investment in the Caribbean
This policy brief discusses climate impacts on the agricultural and tourism sectors in the Caribbean and the need for investment to build climate resilience. Climate impacts are already reversing economic
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Prehistorical and historical declines in Caribbean coral reef accretion rates driven by loss of parrotfish
<p>Caribbean coral reefs have transformed into algal-dominated habitats over recent decades, but the mechanisms of change are unresolved due to a lack of quantitative ecological data before large-scale
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Recent extinctions disturb path to equilibrium diversity in Caribbean bats
<p>Islands are ideal systems to model temporal changes in biodiversity and reveal the influence of humans on natural communities. Although theory predicts biodiversity on islands tends towards an equilibrium
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Report on the nationally determined contributions survey
Countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean urgently need financial support to green their power sectors and thereby implement their national climate action plans under the Paris Climate
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Food and nutrition security and the eradication of hunger CELAC 2025: Furthering discussion and regional cooperation
The region of Latin America and the Caribbean can boast a successful track record in the process of eradicating hunger: it is the only region in the world that has halved both the proportion of people