Natural Hazards: Tropical cyclones in the Caribbean

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active season in recorded history, with 28 tropical storms of which 15 became hurricanes. Of these, seven strengthened into major hurricanes: 2 reached Category 3 strength, 1 Category 4 and a record four reached Category 5 strength – Emily, Katri...

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Nature Based Solutions To Enhance Coastal Resilience

The purpose of this policy brief is to provide the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and its audiences with a broad overview of the importance of coastal natural capital for sustainable development. The brief highlights the role of nature-based infrastructure and integrated solutions for buildin...

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Nature Seekers: A photo case study on rural enterprise clusters supporting conservation

Nature Seekers is a non-governmental organisation focused on turtle conservation based in Matura, Trinidad and Tobago. It has created a cluster of community enterprises which generate jobs and multiple income streams to support turtle and ecosystem conservation. This photo case study examines Nature...

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Nature-Based Solutions For Water – The United Nations World Water Development Report 2018

More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than double that number lack access to safe sanitation. With a rapidly growing global population, demand for water is expected to increase by nearly one-third by 2050. In the face of accelerated consumption, increasing environmen...

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Nature-Based Solutions: Increasing Private Sector Uptake for Climate-Resilience Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can be used as a cost effective way to build infrastructure resilience in response to a changing climate, while also delivering a range of other societal benefits. Yet, many business aren’t aware of these benefits, and implementation of NbS by the private sector (inclu...

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NBS Financing Mechanisms for Mangrove Conservation

This report provides a strategic assessment of financing mechanisms potentially available to a Conservation International (“CI”) project to protect mangroves in the North Brazilian Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem (“NBS-LME"). While the protection and sustainable management of mangroves provides c...

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NBS Local Community Benefits from ecosystem services provided by mangroves on the North Brazil Shelf

This analysis seeks to evaluate the size and distribution of the services the mangrove ecosystem is providing to local communities in Suriname and Guyana. The study involves three components: (i) the description, from the scientific and grey literatures, of the mangrove ecosystem services specific t...

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NBS Mangrove Cover of Guyana, Standard Operating Procedures

This report provides more information regarding the standard operating procedures used to developed the Implementation Report for the NBS Mangrove Project Cover Analysis of Guyana in order to produce the Mangrove Cover Extent Map. Earth and Marine Environmental Consultants (EAME) was commissioned to...

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NBS Mangrove Project Cover Analysis of Guyana

This report is the Implementation Report providing supporting discussion for the data acquisition and processing utilized in order to produce the Mangrove Cover Extent Map. The objectives of the work were as follows: ▪ Production of an up-to-date Mangrove Cover and Extent map utilising the most re...

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NBS Mangrove Project Policy Analysis

The Policy Analysis was aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the existing public policy tools, institutions, relationships, and legal instruments that support the conservation of mangroves, particularly in Guyana. It was intended to assist in addressing legislative and policy issues r...

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