Type of Institution:
Non-Governmental Organizations
Work field:
Adaptation
- Water ressources
- Agriculture
- Infrastructure
- Marine coastal management
- Awareness raising & training
- Vulnerability and impact analysis
- Legistative and institutional framework (political incidence)
- Ecosystems based adaptation
- Health
- Others
Scope:
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
Services:
The CARIBSAVE Partnership is a Not-For-Profit regional organization that works with stakeholders to address the impacts and challenges surrounding climate change, the environment, economic development, tourism and community livelihoods. Its principal objectives are as follows: (1) to model and predict the changes in climate; (2) to assess the vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity of key socio-economic sectors to climate change; (3) to assess and evaluate the impacts of climate change on livelihoods; (4) to conduct socio-economic analyses of the costs and risks of climate change; (5) to provide and implement adaptation and mitigation strategies; (6) to build capacity and support the transition to a green economy; and, (7) to design, support and implement sectoral based capacity building activities, including outreach, education and communication.
