Governments and funders need to know what climate change will cost a farm, a coastline or a national budget, and which response pays back. I lead the vulnerability and adaptation assessments behind national reports to the UNFCCC, the Caribbean's regional Technology Needs Assessment centre, and the field research behind weather index insurance for fishers and farmers.
National vulnerability and adaptation assessments for Jamaica, Grenada and St Kitts and Nevis
Regional Centre for Caribbean Technology Needs Assessment, seven countries since 2018
Five countries of household research behind the Livelihood Protection Policy (CRAIC)
Adaptation Fund and IDB programme design and evaluation
Principal Investigator
International Climate Initiative, IKI
Field research behind the Livelihood Protection Policy, a weather index insurance product for fishers and low-income households. Surveys, focus groups and workshops in five countries fed straight into product design.
Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago
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Vulnerability and Adaptation Specialist
Government of St Kitts and Nevis
Assessed climate risk to coasts, water, agriculture and tourism, appraised adaptation options and validated them with national stakeholders.
St Kitts and Nevis
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Principal Investigator and Head, Regional Centre
UNEP / GEF
The Caribbean regional centre I lead helps seven governments rank adaptation and mitigation technologies, map the barriers and write technology action plans under the UNFCCC.
Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Suriname, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, St Kitts and Nevis
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Co-Principal Investigator
Climate Investment Funds / IDB
Baseline evaluation of watershed condition, water and livelihoods in the Upper Rio Minho before an IDB-financed adaptation programme began.
Jamaica
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Advancing Climate Justice and Transformational Adaptation in the Sustainable Island State Agenda
Open Society Foundations · St Kitts and Nevis
Capacity Building Program to Improve Stakeholder Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change in Jamaica
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT · Jamaica
Adaptation Fund Concept Note and Full Proposal for the Trinidad and Tobago National Project
Development Bank of Latin America & the Caribbean · Trinidad and Tobago
Integrating Climate Information and Decision Processes for Regional Climate Resilience, Phase II (IRAP)
International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University · Jamaica
Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment, Grenada Second National Communication to the UNFCCC
Government of Grenada · Grenada
Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (Agriculture and Tourism), Jamaica Third National Communication to the UNFCCC
Government of Jamaica · Jamaica
Partnership for Canada-Caribbean Climate Change Adaptation
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) · Jamaica, Saint Lucia
Global Islands' Vulnerability Research, Adaptation, Policy and Development
Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) · Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Mauritius, Seychelles