As rains falter, Jamaica’s urban farmers race to adapt
Set amid the rapidly growing city of Kingston, Jamaica’s capital, is a small commercial garden run by the community group the Abilities Foundation. Neat rows of fruits and vegetables line the plot, which helps fund vocational training for students with special needs.
Kingston High School Students Attend Groundbreaking Youth Climate Conference
Eager high school students converged on the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston last Wednesday to attend a novel Nature-based Solutions
Grow what you eat: City students learn the art of climate-smart container gardening
Students of Kingston Technical High School and members of the school’s 4-H Club attended a comprehensive training session on the set up and maintenance of container gardens
East Kingston community excited by urban forestry programme
East Kingston Community Excited about Community Garden Intervention
under Forestry Department/CityAdapt Partnership
UNEP CityAdapt Project Invests over JM$14M in Kingston Inner-city Schools and Greenwich Town
UNEP CityAdapt Project Invests over JM$14M (US$90,000) in Kingston Inner-city Schools and Greenwich Town: Partners with Jamaica 4-H Clubs to install Rainwater Harvesting and Water Purification Systems, Greenhouses and Container Gardens.
CityAdapt LAC wins the Kipepeo Award from UN Environment Programme at the global level!
The CityAdapt LAC project has won the Kipepeo award from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in the environmental impact category.
UNEP CityAdapt Climate Resilience Project Implements over US$1.5M in Nature-based Interventions in Kingston Schools, Communities and Watersheds
Kingston is one of three medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean benefiting from a novel climate resilience project called CityAdapt.
Nature-based solutions and the private sector: keys to adaptation to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
La Oficina para ALC del Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), en su labor de apoyar a los países de la región en incrementar su resiliencia climática, organizó la segunda edición de los Adaptation Action Days donde se debatió sobre adaptación al cambio climático en vísperas de la COP27.
CityAdapt participates in the Nature-Based Solutions Accelerator in Mexico
Participatory mapping for climate resilience in Honduras
