World Bank
14 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 May 2012: The World Bank has presented the results of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a programme designed to promote rapid access to emergency financing in cases of severe weather-based disasters in the Caribbean.
CCRIF provides Caribbean countries with hurricane and earthquake insurance for a cost that is 45-50% lower than that provided by insurance markets. This price difference results from the CCRIF agenda of aggregating individual country risk, and then...
07 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
4 May 2012: The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) held meetings of the Pilot Program on Climate Resilience (PPCR) Sub-Committee, the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) Sub-Committee, the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) Trust Fund Committee, the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) Trust Fund Committee, and the Forest Investment Program (FIP) sub-Committee, and approved new projects on climate resilience, renewable energy and forests.
The meetings took place from 30 April-4 May 2012, in Washington DC,...
03 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 April 2012: The UK Deputy Prime Minister has pledged an additional £25 million to support the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) program to provide clean energy access to the world’s poorest countries.
The United Kingdom has already pledged £50 million to the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program in low income countries (SREP) to finance clean energy projects in developing countries. The main goal of the program is to provide access to reliable energy in households and businesses in order to...
03 May 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 April 2012: The Climate Investment Fund (CIF) has released a video on the impacts of climate change in Dominica, which shows the impacts of extreme weather events and highlights the urgent need to invest in fostering climate resilience.
The film addresses issues such as rising sea levels, the escalation of tropical storms and hurricanes, and water scarcity, noting that they constitute severe climate change risks to islands in the Caribbean. It indicates that Dominica has adopted sustainable...
25 Apr 2012
This event is being organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the World Bank. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/interactive-discussion-on-%e2%80%9csustainable-fisheries-and-rio20%e2%80%9d/ ]
