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    The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention coverage, food supply, economics, and demography. This tool is particularly useful for nutrition champions at the country-level, as it presents a wide range of evidence needed to assess country progress in improving nutrition and nutrition-related outcomes.

  • Barbados has been extremely successful in its embrace of solar water heating: saving millions of dollars in imported fossil fuel costs and millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, thanks to the expansion of this climate compatible technology.  In this CDKN Inside Story, Seizing the sunshine – Barbados’ thriving solar water heater industry, Will Bugler of Acclimatise explores the factors that encouraged Barbados’ homes and businesses to establish and expand their use of solar water heating – an

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    This study econometrically analyses the projected impact of climate change on the water sector of nine Caribbean countries to 2100: Aruba, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Montserrat, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. Overall, all countries, with the exception of Trinidad and Tobago, are expected to suffer aggregate losses as result of climate change in the early periods ca. 2020 under one or more scenarios.

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    This report is an of the outcome of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados in July of 2003. Presentations made at the seminar were based on six case studies carried out in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. In the tourism sector, studies were conducted in the Bahamas and Thailand; studies on agriculture and fisheries were carried out in East Timor and Belize, respectively; and the urban water case studies were undertaken in Jamaica and the Philippines.

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    This proceeding encapsulates the major agreements and resolutions which paved the way for the Barbados plan of action (BPoA). The BPoA is especially significant to small island developing states (SIDS) as it lays down a set of resolutions aimed at guiding the SIDS in their adaptation initiatives and policies.

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    This Synthesis Report brings together the information from four technical studies, each designed to identify and characterise an aspect of the climate change induced vulnerabilities to which the Barbados tourism industry may be exposed. The technical reports highlight the climate change induced impacts that will have the greatest effect on the Barbados tourism product.

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    This tourism vulnerability capacity assessment study sought to provide information that will assist in reducing the vulnerability, risk, and losses from climate change in the tourism industry. Speightstown on the west coast of Barbados was used as the case study location. Among other things, the study conducted a climate change threat perception survey in which it was determined that most stakeholders saw little potential threat from climate change and furthermore felt that the cost of any adaptation should be borne by the government as opposed to the private sector.

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    The small islands developing states of the Caribbean are highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change and as such are compelled to formulate comprehensive adaptation strategies. First however, they must assess their potential losses from climate change. The purpose of this report is to assess the potential economic impact of climate change on the CARICOM countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago.