UNEP CityAdapt Project Invests over JM$14M (US$90,000) in Kingston Inner-city Schools and Greenwich Town: Partners with Jamaica 4-H Clubs to install Rainwater Harvesting and Water Purification Systems, Greenhouses and Container Gardens.
The CityAdapt LAC project has won the Kipepeo award from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the environmental impact category.
Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient Cities
Kingston is one of three medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean benefiting from a novel climate resilience project called CityAdapt.
On Wednesday, October 4th, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM (Panama time, GMT-5), CityAdapt participated in the webinar hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) titled "How do we implement climate action in cities?"
On Tuesday, September 26, from 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. (Panama time, GMT-5), we will hold the sixth ROAD TOWARDS COP28 dialogue on Human mobility and the climate crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean.
UNEP, UN Women, and the World Food Programme provides an opportunity to reflect on the progress made, recognize the unique needs of the region, and address remaining challenges.
La Oficina para ALC del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), en su labor de apoyar a los países de la región en incrementar su resiliencia climática, organizó la segunda edición de los Adaptation Action Days donde se debatió sobre adaptación al cambio climático en vísperas de la COP27.
CityAdapt participates in the Nature-Based Solutions Accelerator in Mexico
As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet the Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place. Only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster.
Sowing Adaptation – Brújula Sonora Podcast
