The Planning Institute of Jamaica has reported that severe weather events, such as storms and flooding have cost Jamaica 18 per cent of its economy over the past decade.

El gobierno boliviano y el Banco Mundial (BM) firmarán hoy un convenio que fortalecerá el marco legal e institucional para la gestión integral de riesgos climáticos y desastres, según un boletín de la entidad financiera.

"The one source of energy that is abundant across the developed and the developing world is the sun's energy", says chemist Robin Perutz, a professor at the University of York and Fellow of the Royal Society.

La atmósfera y el océano se calientan, el deshielo se acentúa, el nivel de mar aumenta y las concentraciones de dióxido de carbono crecen hasta niveles sin precedentes. El cambio climático es una realidad, principalmente causada por el hombre desde mediados del siglo XX. Sin embargo, ¿sabemos realmente qué es el calentamiento global?, ¿qué diferencia existe entre cambio climático y contaminación ambiental?

Los habitantes y autoridades de dicho barrio tomaron conciencia y las medidas necesarias para llevar a cabo esta transformación, luego de que en el año 2011 fueran blanco de una catastrófica tormenta que produjo daños avaluados en hasta 1 billón de dólares. Por lo que esta pequeña ciudad portuaria, que suele ser azotada por vientos muy violentos, decidió tomar las riendas del asunto y comenzó una completa reestructuración.

Technical officer in the government's Climate Change Division, Dr Orville Grey, says that Jamaica and other small island developing states are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

The project seeks to contribute to the implementation of Montego Bay's urban sustainability Action Plan, in which the general goal is to address the main environmental, urban and fiscal issues affecting the long term sustainability of the city.

Dominican Republic's National Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism Council (CNCCMDL) was unanimously elected recently to head the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Low Emissions Development Strategies (LAC LEDS) platform.

The Swedish Energy Agency , according to Hammar, has partnered with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization for a study of the energy sector challenges facing four Caribbean islands: Barbados , Grenada , Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica.

The project is called "Building Climate Resilience of Urban Systems through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in LAC." The latter refers to Latin America and the Caribbean, where Jamaica was one of three countries selected by the United Nations Environment Programme to launch such a project.

Expected to last 24 months, the project is to be executed in Jamaica by the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, with financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Special Climate Change Fund.

This Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience or PPCR assists developing countries to integrate climate resilience with development planning, building on national adaptation programmes of action and other existing efforts.

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has made energy security a cross-cutting theme in its new Strategic Plan 2015 to 2019 to help stimulate growth, leverage broader development assistance and improve CDB's role as a development partner in borrowing member countries (BMCs).

El turismo es una de las actividades económicas más importantes del mundo. Aporta más del 10% del PBI mundial y genera alrededor de 115 millones de empleos directos. ¿Cómo se ve afectado este sector a consecuencia del calentamiento global? ConexiónCop conversó con especialistas para conocer cómo el cambio climático impacta en los viajes alrededor del mundo.