Latin America
IWRM report on Latin America
I am pleased to inform you that has become available a translation into English of issue No. 35 of the Circular of the Network for Cooperation in Integrated Water Resource Management for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. You can download it (PDF, 0.3 MB) at: http://www.cepal.org/drni/noticias/circulares/7/45057/carta35in.pdf
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Partners for the Americas climate fellowship
Attached is information and an application for the exciting opportunity for US professionals to travel for two weeks to Colombia as a Partners Climate Change Fellow and become part of a rapidly growing network of leaders in the field! The deadline for submitting applications is October 14th, 2011. The Fellowship will take place sometime during February and March of 2012. Please pass this on to your networks.
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Water & climate: Latin American connections
I would like to bring your attention to a new project which will conduct socioeconomic studies of the links between water and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Program on Governance and Socioeconomics of Environmental Goods and Services (GSEBSA) at CATIE, with financial support from the Climate Change and Water Program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, just launched a new project called “Strengthening the capacity building and research in environmental economics to study the links between water and climate change”. This project is a three year collaboration between LACEEP, EfD-CA, and the CEDE at the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia.
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Engineers without Borders: Development, CC, and infrastructure report
Climate Compatible Development in the Infrastructure Sector
Climate change is recognised as one of the most significant threats to development during the 21st Century and beyond. Infrastructure policymakers and practitioners have a crucial role to play in meeting the challenge of climate change in the developing word. This applies both to mitigation, i.e. reducing greenhouse gas emissions in ways that facilitate continued growth and sustained poverty reduction; and to adaptation, i.e. protecting vulnerable populations from the impacts of climate change. This report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities at the nexus of climate change, infrastructure and development. Read More...
Climate change is recognised as one of the most significant threats to development during the 21st Century and beyond. Infrastructure policymakers and practitioners have a crucial role to play in meeting the challenge of climate change in the developing word. This applies both to mitigation, i.e. reducing greenhouse gas emissions in ways that facilitate continued growth and sustained poverty reduction; and to adaptation, i.e. protecting vulnerable populations from the impacts of climate change. This report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities at the nexus of climate change, infrastructure and development. Read More...
LAC climate change and disaster management conference
03/06/11 14:17 Filed in: Conference | workshop
The National Water Commission of Mexico (CONAGUA) has the honor to invite to the "Dialog on Climate Change Disaster Management: a perspective from the water community”, as a follow-up to the Dialogs on Water and Climate Change (D4WCC), held in last December in the framework of the COP 16.
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Adaptation and DRR in Latin America workshop
30/05/11 21:37 Filed in: workshop
Stockholm Environment Institute, the UN Strategy for International Disaster Reduction, the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) invite early-career researchers, professionals, practitioners and others from Latin America working in the field of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction to submit their applications to participate in a writeshop for the Latin American region from 25-29 July in Turrialba, Costa Rica. The writeshop will be held in Spanish. Please find the description below.
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IWRM for Latin America issue en espanol
30/05/11 21:32 Filed in: Report
I am pleased to inform you that issue No. 34 of the Circular of the Network for Cooperation in Integrated Water Resource Management for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean is now available, ONLY IN SPANISH.
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Latin American adaptation seminar
08/04/11 11:00 Filed in: workshop
| Expressions of interest to attend |
