Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change: A Sourcebook for the Caribbean Water Sector

The document advocates for 'no and low regrets' investments in the Caribbean water sector, which provide benefits regardless of climate change uncertainty. It highlights Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the CCORAL platform as key tools for identifying and implementing these resilient strategies across policy, legislative, planning, budget, and project levels.

• No regrets investment options provide benefits even in the absence of climate change and across various future uncertainties, while low regrets options may have small additional costs to offset climate risks that are outweighed by the benefits of avoiding future costs.
• Investments are classified as no or low regrets if they offer benefits across a wide range of future climate and development scenarios, provide co-benefits across different sectors and stakeholders, and maintain flexibility to be adjusted in the future to avoid long-term investment lock-in.
• Applying Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) principles is considered a priority low regret activity for climate change adaptation, as it improves the sustainability of water management for immediate and future risk management.
• Water management efficiency can create co-benefits for both adaptation and mitigation; for instance, reducing leakage can lower greenhouse gas emissions, potentially qualifying the project for specialist climate change mitigation finance.
• The Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation TooL (CCORAL) is a region-specific web-based platform designed to help decision-makers screen activities and identify no and low regret options for resilience.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (2014). Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change: A Sourcebook for the Caribbean Water Sector. http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Information-Brief-4-WV.pdf

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change: A Sourcebook for the Caribbean Water Sector. 2014. http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Information-Brief-4-WV.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetwork2014achieving, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change: A Sourcebook for the Caribbean Water Sector}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2014}, url = {http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Information-Brief-4-WV.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }