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Conference Materials: Caribbean Regional Climate Conference

Conference Materials: Caribbean Regional Climate Conference

Thank you for your interest in/attendance at the Caribbean Regional PPCR’s Caribbean Regional Climate Conference. For your convenience, the recorded presentations, as well as presenter slides, will be accessible below. Click here for the conference agenda. Scroll ...
The Caribbean Regional Climate Conference is LIVE

The Caribbean Regional Climate Conference is LIVE

It’s not too late to register for the Caribbean Regional Climate Conference. Click the image below or visit caribclimate.touchstoneticketing.com to register and receive your agenda. ...
RCIIMS is live!

RCIIMS is live!

The Regional Coastal Integrated Information Management System (RCIIMS) is an online platform of Caribbean coastal and marine metadata and serves as a tool for supporting ongoing national climate resilience programs, climate analysis, and adaptation planning regionally. RCIIMS is currently ...
Post-Webinar Package – Rainwater Harvesting in the Caribbean: Past, Present and Possible Future

Post-Webinar Package – Rainwater Harvesting in the Caribbean: Past, Present and Possible Future

On Monday, November 23 we hosted a webinar on the past, present and possible future of Rainwater Harvesting in the Caribbean. View the webinar in its entirety here. There were 4 presentations: Clive Carpenter, GWP Consultants – ...
“Do not forget the human impacts of marine climate change” – Researcher

“Do not forget the human impacts of marine climate change” – Researcher

Assessments of the impacts that climate change has on fisheries sometimes do not do enough to highlight the impacts on people’s lives on livelihoods, is the assertion made by Dr. Paulette Bynoe, researcher and lecturer at the ...
FEWER: The app making fisherfolk more secure

FEWER: The app making fisherfolk more secure

Fisherfolk adding the Fisheries Early Warning and Emergency Response (FEWER) application to their preparation toolkit can “help to build resilience into small scale fishers”, according to leader of the ICT4Fisheries Consortium, Kim Mallalieu. She was speaking on ...
Climate Change: An Existential Threat to Fisheries

Climate Change: An Existential Threat to Fisheries

  Climate change being one of, if not the biggest threat to fisheries in the Caribbean is a key takeaway from the webinar “Building Caribbean Marine Resilience” that was hosted by the Caribbean Regional PPCR on Tuesday, ...
Sweet Potato – The Ideal Crop to Plant in Dry Seasons

Sweet Potato – The Ideal Crop to Plant in Dry Seasons

Sweet potato is one crop that Caribbean farmers should plant as the region experiences more severe and frequent dry seasons.   This is one of the key findings from Dr. Angela Alleyne’s research into the molecular characterization ...
Cold Room Installation at Bodles – A Step Towards Regional Agricultural Resilience

Cold Room Installation at Bodles – A Step Towards Regional Agricultural Resilience

The Caribbean Region’s ability to rebound from adverse agricultural events has been strengthened by the installation of a cold room at the Bodles Research Station in Old Harbour. The Cold Room, which comes at a cost of ...
Key Jamaican Government staff benefit from training in Climate-Smart planning

Key Jamaican Government staff benefit from training in Climate-Smart planning

Jamaica was handed another tool in strengthening its Climate Resilience when key staff from the PIOJ, NWC, MICAF, NEPA, RADA and other agencies were trained in the use of the Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation Tool ...
Automatic Weather Monitoring Station Installations Begin in Dominica

Automatic Weather Monitoring Station Installations Begin in Dominica

The Investment Plan for the Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (Caribbean Regional PPCR), through our partners the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CiMH) have begun the installation of eight (8) Automatic ...
#TB Trinidad Climate Data Storage and Redundancy System Handover

#TB Trinidad Climate Data Storage and Redundancy System Handover

On Friday, November 29, 2019, the second of three Climate Data Storage and Redundancy Systems was handed over at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. In attendance was the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Country Representative Rocio ...
#TB Barbados Handover of Climate Data Storage and Redundancy System

#TB Barbados Handover of Climate Data Storage and Redundancy System

The Caribbean Region took another step towards securing its climate data on November 6, 2019 when the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CiMH) received the first of three Climate Data Storage and Redundancy Systems. The other ...
#TB Handover of Refurbished Seed Bank Facilities at Bodles

#TB Handover of Refurbished Seed Bank Facilities at Bodles

On Wednesday, October 23, 2019, the Investment Plan for the Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience formally handed over refurbished Seed Bank facilities to Jamaica’s Ministry of Investment, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF). ...
CRFM Portal – Making Fisheries Planning Smarter

CRFM Portal – Making Fisheries Planning Smarter

The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) generates an incredible amount of data and information for improving fisheries management in the CRFM sub-region, and is a known regional leader and example in strengthening the divides among science, policy ...
UWI Hires Consultant for LIDAR Data Project

UWI Hires Consultant for LIDAR Data Project

The University of the West Indies (The UWI) signed a contract with geo-data specialists Fugro Geoid SAS earlier this month to use Light Detection and Ranging Data (LIDAR) to assess coastal vulnerability and conduct climate analysis related ...
Regional Planning For Climate Change Gets Research Boost

Regional Planning For Climate Change Gets Research Boost

Planning for a changing climate and the anticipated impacts on the Caribbean – from temperature increases and the associated implications for food and water security to extreme weather events and the associated implications for public health – ...
Regional PPCR Project signs US $1.9 million contract to improve availability of LIDAR data for climate planning

Regional PPCR Project signs US $1.9 million contract to improve availability of LIDAR data for climate planning

The University of the West Indies has signed a contract with geo-data specialists, Fugro Geoid SAS valued at US$1.9 million to conduct LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) Data Collection and Processing for Jamaica and Haiti. The signing ...
Roxann Stennett-Brown: Throwing Punches In A Male-Dominated Ring

Roxann Stennett-Brown: Throwing Punches In A Male-Dominated Ring

Having executed some groundbreaking work with the Investment Plan for the Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR), which is now being implemented by the Mona Office for Research and Innovation, climate data ...
Four Countries to Benefit from Regional Rainwater Harvesting Project

Four Countries to Benefit from Regional Rainwater Harvesting Project

Technical experts in the water and health sectors from the region, convened for an inception meeting here, for a “Rainwater Harvesting, Mapping, and Manual Development and Training Consultancy”, led by the Investment Plan of the Caribbean Regional ...
National Meteorological Officers to benefit from Climate Product and Climate Services Training

National Meteorological Officers to benefit from Climate Product and Climate Services Training

As climate change impacts intensify in the Caribbean, the region is scaling up responses by improving the availability of climate information, products and services and expanding climate networks. Meteorological officers from Meteorological Service, Jamaica are set to ...
New Products, Services To Enhance Sector Resilience To Climate Change

New Products, Services To Enhance Sector Resilience To Climate Change

New climate information products and services have been made available to improve adaptation planning and better manage climate risks affecting the country\'s economic sectors. Meteorological officers from the Meteorological Service of Jamaica have been introduced to the products ...
Super Computer Cuts Caribbean’s Big Climate Data Challenges Down to Size

Super Computer Cuts Caribbean’s Big Climate Data Challenges Down to Size

It is a terrible irony that although the small island and coastal states of the Caribbean contribute very little to greenhouse gas emissions, size, geographical location, topography and heavy reliance on natural resources make Caribbean countries particularly ...
Global Expert in Crop Modelling for UWI Summer Programme

Global Expert in Crop Modelling for UWI Summer Programme

Professor Gerrit Hoogen-boom, pre-eminent scholar from the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, University of Florida, and Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, will be a special lecturer in an advanced crop modeling training which takes place July ...
Regional Stakeholders Benefiting from Climate Resilience Workshop

Regional Stakeholders Benefiting from Climate Resilience Workshop

More than 20 agricultural stakeholders from the region are benefiting from a five-day training worship in Climate Resilience Advanced Crop Modelling. The participants are from Jamaica, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad ...
Making Caribbean Fisheries Climate-Smart

Making Caribbean Fisheries Climate-Smart

Workshop participants map climate change impact on ecological and socio-economic components of three fisheries systems as a part of activities at the PPCR Caribbean fisheries workshop in Kingstown, St Vincent... ...
Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture

Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture

Jamaica\'s Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture & Fisheries, Audley Shaw and CARDI Executive Director Barton Clarke shake hands after signing the MOU for refurbishing the seed storage facility at Bodles, while Permanent Secretary Donovan Stanberry (left) and ...
Caribbean Fisherfolk Get New Early Warning System

Caribbean Fisherfolk Get New Early Warning System

More than 30 male and female fishers from St Vincent and the Grenadines were introduced to a new Fisheries Early Warning and Emergency Response (FEWER) System at a workshop held at the Fisheries Division in St Vincent ...
UWI Mona Research Days 2018

UWI Mona Research Days 2018

Various projects under the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) in the Caribbean and In Jamaica, in partnership with the Department of Physics at UWI Mona, mounted a joint booth at UWI Mona’s Research Days held on ...
Jayaka Campbell’s Passion for SPARKS

Jayaka Campbell’s Passion for SPARKS

IT’S PALPABLE, Jayaka Campbell’s excitement over SPARKS, the supercomputer that is to enhance the Caribbean’s climate projection capabilities and help inform its response efforts. ...
Data Analyst for Climate Change Super Computer SPARKS

Data Analyst for Climate Change Super Computer SPARKS

With a BSc in Electronics and an MSc in Physics, 35-year-old Campbell is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computational Physics. He is also a member of the Climate Studies Group at The University of the West Indies ...
Caribbean project to study impacts of climate change on fisheries

Caribbean project to study impacts of climate change on fisheries

Fisheries managers in the Caribbean are pinning their hopes on the Climate Investment Fund’s Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)... ...
PPCR Caribbean Monitoring and Reporting Workshop in Haiti

PPCR Caribbean Monitoring and Reporting Workshop in Haiti

Port au Prince, Haiti will be the venue for the third Monitoring and Reporting Workshop of the Regional Track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) in the Caribbean, to be held between August 31 and ...
Fishers to get bad-weather warning app

Fishers to get bad-weather warning app

The solution is a mobile phone app which is being developed by the ICT4Fisheries Consortium in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) under the Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR). ...
Early Warning System to Help Caribbean Fishermen Deal With Climate Change

Early Warning System to Help Caribbean Fishermen Deal With Climate Change

The challenges of climate change and variability faced by fishermen and women in four Caribbean countries are to be addressed through early warning and emergency response tools being developed under the Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot ...
SPARKS Unveiled – Supercomputer Promises Fireworks For Climate Research In The Caribbean

SPARKS Unveiled – Supercomputer Promises Fireworks For Climate Research In The Caribbean

Local and regional climate scientists got just such a thrill this week with the unveiling of the Scientific Platform for Applied Research and Knowledge Sharing (SPARKS), labeled ‘a big deal’ and as ‘a game changer’ by Professor ...
A supercomputer in the fight against climate change dangers

A supercomputer in the fight against climate change dangers

The UWI and Fujitsu, the forward-looking international technology firm, will sign a contract for the acquisition of a high-performance computing and storage system or, in the modern lingua, a supercomputer valued at US$742,376 or J$93,539,427. ...
UWI, IDB Launch Investment Plan For Regional Climate Change Programme

UWI, IDB Launch Investment Plan For Regional Climate Change Programme

With climate change impacts a clear danger to Caribbean islands, the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) yesterday launched the investment plan for the region’s track of the Pilot Programme for ...

PPCR Caribbean Introduces Early Warning System for fishers in SVG


Eastern Caribbean Fisherfolk and Fisheries Administrators introduced to a new Fisheries Early Warning and Emergency Response System, developed under the Caribbean PPCR, in March 2018.
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Jayaka Campbell’s Passion for SPARKS

IT’S PALPABLE, Jayaka Campbell’s excitement over SPARKS, the supercomputer that is to enhance the Caribbean’s climate projection capabilities and help inform its response efforts.

There is little mystery why. In a region expected to be among the worst affected by a changing climate, data is critical to planning, and SPARKS – the Scientific Platform for Applied Research and Knowledge Sharing – offers that data.

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Caribbean project to study impacts of climate change on fisheries

Fisheries managers in the Caribbean are pinning their hopes on the Climate Investment Fund’s Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR), Caribbean Regional Track, to generate the data the lack of which has posed major obstacles to effective planning and management of fisheries in a region hit hard by climate change.

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Fishers to get bad-weather warning app

The solution is a mobile phone app which is being developed by the ICT4Fisheries Consortium in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) under the Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR). It will work to reduce risks to fishers’ lives and livelihoods posed by climate change and climate variability.

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SPARKS Unveiled – Supercomputer Promises Fireworks For Climate Research In The Caribbean

In the race to stay ahead of the curve in the world of climate-change research, there are few things as thrilling to scientists as a new tool to improve efficiency in their data collection and sense-making efforts.

Local and regional climate scientists got just such a thrill this week with the unveiling of the Scientific Platform for Applied Research and Knowledge Sharing (SPARKS), labeled ‘a big deal’ and as ‘a game changer’ by Professor Michael Taylor, who heads the Climate Studies Group at Mona.

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UWI, IDB Launch Investment Plan For Regional Climate Change Programme

With climate change impacts a clear danger to Caribbean islands, the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) yesterday launched the investment plan for the region’s track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR).

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PPCR Participates in UWI Research Days 2018

The Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) partners with the Physics Department at UWI Mona to mount booth at UWI Mona’s Research Days in February 2018.

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Meet Jayaka Campbell –Data Analyst for Climate Change Super Computer SPARKS

With a BSc in Electronics and an MSc in Physics, 35-year-old Campbell is currently pursuing a PhD in Computational Physics. He is also a member of the Climate Studies Group at The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Mona, and the data analyst with SPARKS — Scientific Platform for Applied Research and Knowledge Sharing — a high-performance computer system at the university, working to provide regional and country-level climate projections and high-resolution maps in the Caribbean in order to improve the region’s climate information.

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Caribbean Programme on Pilot Resilience Organises Monitoring and Reporting Workshop in Haiti

(PRESS RELEASE) – Port au Prince, Haiti will be the venue for the third Monitoring and Reporting Workshop of the Regional Track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) in the Caribbean, to be held between August 31 and September 1, 2017.

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Caribbean | Early Warning System to Help Caribbean Fishermen Deal With ClimateFishermen who depend on fishing for a living need an early warning system Change

The challenges of climate change and variability faced by fishermen and women in four Caribbean countries are to be addressed through early warning and emergency response tools being developed under the Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR).

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A supercomputer in the fight against climate change dangers

The UWI and Fujitsu, the forward-looking international technology firm, will sign a contract for the acquisition of a high-performance computing and storage system or, in the modern lingua, a supercomputer valued at US$742,376 or J$93,539,427.

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