Climate and Development Resources in Grenada
The Clearinghouse was initiated more than 15 years ago as part of the Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Climate Change (CPACC) project. It began with a few documents and currently stands with over one thousand seven hundred. Each month, new climate and development resources are added including books, toolkits, strategy documents, project reports, scientific studies…
Read MoreUNDP-JCCCP In Country Specific Campaign for Grenada- Results of Climate Change Awareness Survey
This Report provides an overview of the key results from a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Survey on Climate Change, which was conducted in Grenada between last July and early August 2016. These results are intended to inform the development of a country-specific communication campaign on Climate Change that is to be executed under the…
Read More(IICA) Grenada Country Profile Climate Change and Agriculture: Policies, strategies & actions
This document was produced as part of the activities of the Caribbean Climate Smart Agriculture Forum. The stocktaking initiative stemmed from a recognition of the importance of understanding context, and the need for coordination amongst existing efforts to reduce duplication and to ensure the lessons learned help to improve the efficacy of future actions. Promoting…
Read MoreCDKN Policy Brief-From the ground up : How communities can collaborate to drive local adaptation and influence the national agenda
While climate change may be driven by global processes, it is at the local level where the damage caused by climate impacts like hurricanes, storms and floods is felt most acutely. Responses to climate change are inextricably linked to the local context in which they emerge. Caribbean decision-makers increasingly recognise that ‘top-down’ approaches to climate…
Read MoreAssessing the Vulnerability to Climate Change of Small Scale Fisheries: The Grenada Example
Small scale fisheries, critical to the livelihoods, coastal economies and food security of coastal communities, are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. As such, developing sustainable resource management for this sector depends on our ability to predict the risk of climate change on small scale fisheries and harness the capacity of coastal communities…
Read MoreClimate Change – Implications for Investors and Financial Institutions
The Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the most comprehensive and relevant analysis of our changing climate. It provides the scientific fact base that will be used around the world to formulate climate policies in the coming years. This document is one of a series synthesizing the most pertinent findings…
Read MoreSNAPSHOT: Grenada’s Approach to initiating Integration of Adaptation Planning across Sectors
While there is no single approach to integrating adaptation considerations into sector planning, concrete examples are emerging as more countries pursue National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes. South-South sharing of experiences through the NAP Global Network has shown that, in the early stages of NAP processes, the impetus for sector integration can be found in different…
Read MoreSNAP: Stocktaking for National Adaptation Planning
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ has developed the Stocktaking for National Adaptation Planning (SNAP) tool. The tool provides a snapshot of the planning capacities that are currently available and intended in a country. It thus helps to identify the country’s point of departure for initiating the…
Read MoreNAP Grenada Poster
Grenada’s National Adaptation Plan 2017-2021 features 12 multi-sectoral programs of action. Recognizing human and financial capacity constraints, Grenada’s NAP document adopts an approach that works within these circumstances, acting as an instrument to mobilize financial resources. It is an umbrella document, mainly based on prioritized climate change adaptation activities taken from already existing sectoral and…
Read MoreNational Climate Change Policy for Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique (2017-2021)
This National Climate Change Policy builds on the foundation laid by the National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan, 2007 – 2011 (NCCSAP). Although the NCCSAP was initially targeted to be replaced at the end of 2011, it has continued to guide national climate change programming in the period 2012 – 2016.
Read MoreGrenada Land Degradation Neutrality National Report
This report summarizes the key outcomes of the national efforts carried out in 2014 and 2015 towards putting in practice the land degradation neutrality concept. The LDN project, which was sponsored by the Republic of Korea, was carried out with the support of the UNCCD Secretariat and implemented in partnership with the Joint Research Center…
Read MoreNational Energy Policy of Grenada (2011)
GRENADA LIKE MANY OTHER DEVELOPING SMALL ISLAND STATES HAS NOW formulated an ambitious National Energy Policy (NEP). This Policy is very urgent and timely now that the global energy market is again vulnerable to the high volatility of oil prices. Soaring prices for petroleum and petroleum-related products as a result of the variable weather patterns…
Read MoreGrenada’s Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) 2014-2018
Fellow Citizens, Development Partners and Friends of Grenada, for Developing Countries, fostering economic growth, increased employment, and managing the high levels of debt feature among the most pressing challenges of the millennium. This GPRS is rooted in our “contract with the Grenadian people” entered into on February 19th, 2013. This contract embodies a commitment on…
Read MoreNational Determined Contributions
Grenada is a small island developing state located in the south eastern Caribbean, made up of several islands all with its own individual characteristics. Grenada’s total emissions are not significant in the global context with 2010 emissions being 251, 649 tons of co2 – 0.0005% of total global emission. Notwithstanding this, Grenada is committed to…
Read MoreNational Adaptation Plan
We as a small island developing nation are amongst the countries most vulnerable to the projected impacts of climate change. Having experienced several extreme events in the recent past, including drought and flooding, and growing coastal erosion all resulting in significant impacts on the economy, climate change adaptation is no longer a choice but an…
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