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This fact sheet, produced by Acclimatise for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), outlines the critical role of national policy and institutions in driving climate adaptation in the Caribbean. It emphasizes the need for governments to create an enabling environment for local action through policy integration, institutional capacity building, and the translation of national strategies into local realities.

• National policy and institutions are essential for climate adaptation because they manage finance flows from public and private sources, provide strategic oversight for development priorities, offer the regulatory and legal authority to create certainty for action, and provide the institutional capacity to implement climate action across various scales.
• To effectively build climate resilience, governments must foster an enabling environment for local action by integrating climate change into national planning, assessing and building institutional capacity, and translating national policies into local action. This includes incorporating diverse views from civil society into decision-making and identifying respected local champions to promote action.
• The document highlights specific tools and examples used to support adaptation in the region, including the Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation tool (CCORAL) for policy integration, the ARIA toolkit for institutional capacity assessment used in Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Lucia, and local actor networks in Jamaica that helped implement national policies locally.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (n.d.). government_low_res_print_updated280417-4f35e456a26c0c8c.pdf. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/Government_low_res_print_updated280417.pdf

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. government_low_res_print_updated280417-4f35e456a26c0c8c.pdf. n.d. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/Government_low_res_print_updated280417.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

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