Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI)

🌍 Don’t miss TODAY's webinar on Open, Climate-Responsive Budgeting! 📊 Join us today on International Day for Climate Action for the fourth and final session in the "Just and Equitable Climate Finance for the Caribbean" series, brought to you by CANARI and the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance. With our co-host, SAEDI Consulting, we’ll explore how transparent, climate-responsive budgeting can drive accountability, equity, and sustainable solutions domestically and across the region. 🗓 Today, October 24, 2024 🕒 2:00 – 3:30 pm AST/GMT-4 💻 ZOOM 💬 Featuring: • Dr. Preeya Mohan, Senior Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, UWI • Leisa Perch, CEO and Founder, Saedi Consulting The "Just and Equitable Climate Finance for the Caribbean" series covers: • Financing Locally-Led Climate Action • Loss and Damage Finance • Debt, Climate Justice, and Finance • Open, Climate-Responsive Budgeting 🚨 Join us today! Register: https://bit.ly/3WVuKVz 🔗 Let’s make sure the Caribbean leads the way toward just and inclusive climate finance! 🌊 #ClimateActionNow #ClimateJustice #OpenBudgeting #CaribbeanClimateJusticeNOW #ResilientCaribbean #JustTransition #ClimateFinance #COP29

🌍Don’t miss the next webinar on Debt, Climate Justice & Finance!⚖ Join us for the third session in the "Just and Equitable Climate Finance for the Caribbean" series brought to you by CANARI and the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance. Ahead of COP29, we hope to explore the current debt crisis, the Bridgetown Initiative and innovative financing mechanisms like debt for climate swaps and blue/ green bonds and what this all means for the Caribbean. 🗓️ Thursday 17 Oct, 2024 🕒 2:00 – 3:30 pm AST/GMT-4 💻 ZOOM 💬 Featuring speakers from: Caribbean Policy Development Centre and International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) The Just and Equitable Climate Finance for the Caribbean webinar series will cover: Financing Locally-Led Climate Action Loss and Damage Finance Debt, Climate Justice, and Finance Open, Climate-Responsive Budgeting 🚨 Register today: https://bit.ly/3WVuKVz/ Let’s ensure the Caribbean's voice is front and center! 🌊 #LossAndDamage #ClimateJustice #CaribbeanClimateJusticeNOW #ResilientCaribbean #JustTransition #ClimateFinance #COP29

🌿 In September 2024, Lehome Johnson, Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) Caribbean Islands Small Grants Coordinator at CANARI presented certificates to ten members of the Dolphin Head Local Forest Management Committee who completed the Team Jamaica Training Programme in tourism and hospitality. This initiative is part of the project "Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods through Ecotourism in the Dolphin Head Forest Reserve, Jamaica," supported by #CEPF. 🎓 To date, 52 members of communities surrounding the Dolphin Head Forest Reserve have received training through the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo). This effort is a key strategy of the Local Forest Management Committee to increase local livelihood options and reduce illegal activities in the forest. 👥 Community members will also receive craft making training over the next few months to further help boost eco-friendly tourism in Dolphin Head Forest Reserve! ➡ Learn more about CEPF's second investment in the Caribbean Islands here: https://lnkd.in/eSG_zHF2 📣 Stay tuned for more updates about CEPF in the Caribbean! Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund The World Bank The Tourism Product Development Company Limited #SustainableTourism #EcoTourism #CommunityDevelopment

🎥 In the final episode of our web series, "Convos with the Fellows", Anderson Jean shares what surprised him the most about Trinidad and Tobago! ➡️ This first cohort of Yves Renard Fellows is supported through a grant to the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) from the UK Government’s Darwin Initiative. 📣 Stay tuned for more updates on the Yves Renard Fellowship Programme! #convoswiththefellows #yvesrenardfellowship #BiodiversityConservation #sustainablelivelihoods #DarwinInitiative #CANARICaribbean

🐝 The Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot is buzzing with excitement! Five projects supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and its Caribbean team at CANARI are promoting beekeeping as a forest-friendly livelihood in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. 👥 Led by the Northern Cockpit Country, South East Cockpit Country, Sawyers and Dolphin Head Local Forest Management Committees in Jamaica and AVSI Foundation in the Dominican Republic, these projects are training local beekeepers in beekeeping and apiary management, ensuring they have modern equipment and proper gear. 🍯 More bees in and around the forests where these projects are taking place means improved pollination, healthier ecosystems and increased biodiversity, further supporting both conservation and local livelihoods. 🍃 Alternative livelihood projects like these, align with the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States (ABAS) and its ambition for environmental protection and sustainability, ensuring a secure future for our Caribbean. 📣 Stay tuned for more updates about CEPF in the Caribbean! 📸 Photo credits: CANARI, NCCLFMCBS & Christina Sinclair Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund The World Bank #biodiversityconservation #sustainablelivelihoods #beekeeping #communityempowerment

🎥 The fourth episode of our web series, "Convos with the Fellows", features Emmanuela Feuille, who shares some highlights of her time in Trinidad and Tobago! ➡️ This first cohort of Yves Renard Fellows is supported through a grant to the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) from the UK Government’s Darwin Initiative. 📣 Stay tuned for the last episode of our series next week! #convoswiththefellows #yvesrenardfellowship #BiodiversityConservation #sustainablelivelihoods #DarwinInitiative #CANARICaribbean

🐟 CANARI and the Department of Marine Resources and Fisheries (DMRF) engaged both the Scarborough and Castara communities in Tobago, including fisherfolk, and key government agencies to plan for and prioritise actions to address their coastal vulnerability and build climate resilience. 📊 These workshops, which were held on September 10 and 11, 2024, focused on validating findings from vulnerability assessments, and conducting participatory scenario planning to improve local understanding of and identify specific strategies to adapt to future climate risks and other changes. This process will inform the roll-out of practical coastal resilience measures for the community over the next 4-6 months. ➡ This work is part of the Tech4CoastalResilience project in Trinidad funded through HIT RESET Caribbean by OACPS and EU. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/ednAdDPu #ClimateAction #coastalresilience #Tech4Resilience #ResilientCaribbean

🌿 CANARI is excited to share its latest case study entitled “Building Sustainability through Business Strengthening”, which highlights six nature-based enterprises supported under the GEF-IWEco project in Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In addition to business strengthening, this CANARI led project helped the SMEs build climate resilience into their activities and conduct ecosystem stewardship activities to protect the natural resources their enterprises depend on. 🌱 CANARI’s three-pronged model of support to SMEs builds their overall sustainability. 🔗 Read the case study here: https://bit.ly/47HdKqR ➡ This case study was produced under the CANARI initiative on Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods funded by the Global Environment Facility through the Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco) project implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). To learn more about the project, visit: https://lnkd.in/dUdKSpp2. 📸 Jacq-Co Valley Products Ltd. members within their agro-processing facility. Saint Lucia. Photo credit: CANARI. #SustainableBusiness #ClimateResilience #NatureBasedSolutions

🌿 CANARI is excited to share its latest case study entitled “Building Sustainability through Business Strengthening”, which highlights six nature-based enterprises supported under the GEF-IWEco project in Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In addition to business strengthening, this CANARI led project helped the SMEs build climate resilience into their activities and conduct ecosystem stewardship activities to protect the natural resources their enterprises depend on. 🌱 CANARI’s three-pronged model of support to SMEs builds their overall sustainability. 🔗 Read the case study here: https://bit.ly/47HdKqR ➡ This case study was produced under the CANARI initiative on Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods funded by the Global Environment Facility through the Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco) project implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). To learn more about the project, visit: https://lnkd.in/dUdKSpp2. 📸 Jacq-Co Valley Products Ltd. members within their agro-processing facility. Saint Lucia. Photo credit: CANARI. #SustainableBusiness #ClimateResilience #NatureBasedSolutions

🚨Happening Tomorrow: Loss and Damage Finance Webinar💻🌿 Join us for the second session in the "Just and Equitable Climate Finance for the Caribbean" series, co-hosted by Climate Analytics Caribbean and brought to you by CANARI and the Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance. We’ll dive deep into how we can secure Loss & Damage funds for those impacted by the climate crisis in the Caribbean, leading into critical discussions at COP29. 🗓️ Thursday 26 September 🕒 2:00 – 3:30 pm AST/GMT-4 💻 ZOOM 💬 Featuring speakers from: CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) and Climate Analytics Caribbean 🔗Register Now: https://bit.ly/3WVuKVz The Just and Equitable Climate Finance for the Caribbean webinar series will cover: •Financing Locally-Led Climate Action •Loss and Damage Finance •Debt, Climate Justice, and Finance •Open, Climate-Responsive Budgeting Let’s ensure the Caribbean's voice is front and center! 🌊 #LossAndDamage #ClimateJustice #CaribbeanClimateJusticeNOW #ResilientCaribbean #JustTransition #ClimateFinance #COP29