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Climate Risk Profile

Trinidad and Tobago Resilience Profile

The Eastern and Southern Caribbean (ESC) region is highly vulnerable to natural hazards. In recent years, extreme hurricanes have devastated communities and infrastructure in the region and left thousands of people without shelter, livelihoods, and services.
  • USAID
Grenada Resilience Profile Cover
Climate Risk Profile

Grenada Resilience Profile

The Eastern and Southern Caribbean (ESC) region is highly vulnerable to natural hazards. In recent years, extreme hurricanes have devastated communities and infrastructure in the region and left thousands of people without shelter, livelihoods, and services.
  • USAID
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Climate Risk Profile

Barbados Resilience Profile

The Eastern and Southern Caribbean (ESC) region is highly vulnerable to natural hazards. In recent years, extreme hurricanes have devastated communities and infrastructure in the region and left thousands of people without shelter, livelihoods, and services.
  • USAID
Joanne Dulce and Marcia Urquart Glenn are USAID’s newest Water Warriors recipients.
Blog Post

Haiti and Philippines Leaders Lauded as Newest Water Warriors

On World Water Day, March 22, 2021, USAID announced its second annual Water Warrior Awards, which recognizes the value of its water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) leads who work on the front lines with local partners and communities.
  • Portia Persley
Hurricane Maria devastated parts of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean, including Dominica shown here, in September 2017. The Category 5 hurricane was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
Blog Post

Building Resilience in a Climate Change Hotspot

Countries in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean have always been vulnerable to natural hazards, but climate change trends project that disasters—hurricanes, tropical storms, flash floods, drought, and extreme heat—are becoming more frequent, intense, costly, and time-consuming to recover from.
  • Wendy Putnam
A Surviving Tree by Md. Shamim Shahnewaz
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A Surviving Tree!

Due to heavy floods, river erosion is constantly taking place on the banks of the Padma river. A boy is seen climbing the only coconut tree that has survived the effects of river erosion at the banks of the Padma in Manikganj, Dhaka on August 23, 2021.
Illegal maize cultivation inside the Menabe Antimena protected area.
Blog Post

Environmental Justice and Advocacy to Save Madagascar’s Largest Dry Forest

Inside the protected area of Menabe Antimena is Madagascar's largest dry forest--45% of which has disappeared in only the last 10 years due to massive deforestation, fires, migration, illegal maize cultivation, corruption and unscrupulous private interests. Menabe Antimena is one of the many critical ecosystems that the USAID Hay Tao project is working to protect.
  • Mihary Randrianarivelo
Vehicle transport is a key source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in Indian cities, and one in which power dynamics, occupational differences, as well as socioeconomic and cultural differences related to gender shape exposure for women and men. Credit: USAID Clean Air Catalyst
Newsletter Recap

Climatelinks July 2021 Newsletter Recap

In July, Climatelinks explored the important health and climate impacts of air pollution. As the world’s largest environmental health risk, air pollution contributes to approximately 6.7 million premature deaths each year. This is a significant development challenge, as low and middle income countries are at the highest risk for the greatest health burdens from poor air quality.
  • Climatelinks