Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
The new projects aim to identify and better understand evolving climate risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptive capacity for islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The Adaptation Sciences program is announcing 11 new two-year projects in Fiscal Year 2023 that aim to identify and better understand evolving climate risks, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity for islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
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The effort is part of NOAA’s support for the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) and the U.S.- Caribbean Partnership to Combat the Climate Crisis 2030 (PACC2030) and utilizes funding provided through a partnership with the U.S. Department of State to enhance climate resilience and adaptation in the Caribbean.
NOAA works closely with its partners in the Caribbean to shape understanding about climate and health, and support the development of knowledge to help inform decisions and manage risk.
This webinar highlighted the important role that NOAA and EPA are playing in providing support and expertise to countries around the world through the Department of State’s Transparency Accelerator initiatives, which the BCI Project is supported through.
Pew Charitable Trusts and Silvestrum Climate Associates, with support from the NOAA Blue Carbon Inventory (BCI) Project, hosted a Technical Workshop on Coastal Wetlands/Blue Carbon in National Climate Commitments Technical Workshop in Panama City, Panama.
As part of an ongoing partnership in the region focused on the development of climate services for adaptation and resilience, NOAA’s Adaptation Sciences program provided funding to Blue Sky Development Consulting to support experts in the design and implementation of an assessment of the state of climate and health science, priorities, and adaptive capacity in the Caribbean.
The NOAA Adaptation Sciences Program is excited to host a webinar titled “Research for Action on Climate Change and Health in the Caribbean.”
A new study funded by CVP finds unexpected long-range links between aerosol particle source, especially smoke, and atmospheric processes including cloud formation and radiative properties.
CPO’s Adaptation Sciences Program will lead a U.S. Center side event highlighting two international partnerships, the Local2030 Islands Network and the Renewable Energy for Latin America and the Caribbean (RELAC) initiative, as well as their U.S. Federal Agency and international partners, working towards ambitious and necessary net-zero and climate resilience goals during COP27.