Blogs - CANARI

Reflecting on ten years of CANARI’s Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction Programme

by admin | Aug 19, 2019 | Blogs, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, News

Ainka Granderson, Ph.D., Senior Technical Officer, CANARI Climate Change Blog: August 19, 2019 Climate change and disasters, such as the two unprecedented Category 5 Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, are a critical and ever-increasing challenge for Caribbean...

A note to donors supporting development work in a post-disaster context in the Caribbean

by admin | Oct 6, 2017 | Blogs, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, Publications

When a natural disaster devastates a country, the global community earnestly reaches out to help in the recovery and reconstruction efforts. Funds are pledged and donors set up new projects to address various areas of development. The approach that donors take and the...

Blue economy or ‘bluewashing’ Caribbean coastal development?

by admin | Sep 27, 2017 | Blogs, Green Economy, News, Publications, Rural Livelihoods

If ‘greenwashing’ is the practice of making unsubstantiated or misleading claims about the environmental benefits of an action, then perhaps we now need a new term – ‘bluewashing’ – to reflect where coastal and marine development initiatives may be...

Lessons for effective negotiation on the post-2015 agenda from early experiences with environmental diplomacy in the Caribbean

by admin | Jun 1, 2015 | Blogs, News, Publications

How can small states with limited resources have an effective voice in the post-2015 negotiations? The Caribbean experience in Rio in 1992 tells us that regional collaboration is key. The equal voting rights of UN Member States in international negotiations belie the...