Achieving development resilient to climate change

The document outlines the vulnerabilities of the Caribbean water sector to climate variability and change, emphasizing the need for cross-sectoral cooperation and flexible planning strategies to build climate resilience.

• The Caribbean faces risks from current climate variability and future changes, with impacts from hurricanes, floods, and droughts falling most heavily on poor and vulnerable communities lacking adaptive capacity.
• Water is identified as the primary medium for climate change influence on ecosystems and livelihoods, and because water services both rely on and support other sectors like energy and tourism, impacts are interdependent and require inter-sectoral cooperation.
• Climate projections for the Caribbean indicate warmer temperatures, higher sea levels, reduced rainfall, and increased storm intensity, though significant uncertainties in the scale of these changes necessitate the use of 'no and low regret options' and flexible planning.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (2017). Achieving development resilient to climate change. https://cdkn.org/resource/report-achieving-development-resilient-climate-change-sourcebook-caribbean-water-sector

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Achieving development resilient to climate change. 2017. https://cdkn.org/resource/report-achieving-development-resilient-climate-change-sourcebook-caribbean-water-sector.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetwork2017achieving, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{Achieving development resilient to climate change}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2017}, month = jan, url = {https://cdkn.org/resource/report-achieving-development-resilient-climate-change-sourcebook-caribbean-water-sector}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }