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 As a small island developing state in the Caribbean, Jamaica faces significant climate change impacts, including:
- Increasingly intense hurricanes
- Sea-level rise, coastal erosion
- Saline intrusion into soils and aquifers
- Declining average precipitation
- Increasingly erratic and intense rainfall
These impacts pose serious risks to community livelihoods, key socio-economic sectors, and ecosystems.
CBA activities in
Jamaica will support adaptation both in coastal regions and in the agricultural sector, focusing on improved natural resource management practices to maintain coastal and agricultural land resources and protect biodiversity while safeguarding communities and livelihoods in the face of climate change impacts. The overall portfolio for CBA Jamaica will be guided by the Jamaica CBA Country Programme Strategy.
CBA
Jamaica Presentations
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 Featured Project
Proponent: Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust (JCDT website)
Reducing Climate Change-Driven Erosion and Landslide Risks through Sustainable Agriculture for Safer Slopes
The upper slopes of Jamaica's Blue Mountains are an important protected area, while the lower slopes are a key coffee-growing area. Climate change impacts, including stronger hurricanes and more intense drought, threaten to increase erosion and landslide risks. This places communities in danger, threatens livelihoods, and impacts a crucial watershed serving the city of Kingston. In response, the JCDT's project will reduce these climate-driven erosion and landslide risks through reforestation and agroforestry, while building the capacity of local farmers to manage ongoing climate change pressures.
By promoting more forest cover, the project will also contribute to maintaining the misty and cool microclimate required for Jamaica's signature Blue Mountain Coffee, while reducing pressures that might lead farmers to migrate upslope in search of better land or more suitable microclimates for their crops.
JCDT Project Information Sheet (MS Word)
JCDT Project Proposal (MS Word)
Status: Under Implementation
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|  | | Launch of the CBA project on Kyoto Day (Feb 15, 2008) | Audience at launch of CBA Jamaica at Kyoto day (Feb 15, 2008) | Hon. Rudyard Spencer, M.P., Minister of Health and Environment, addressing the launch of the CBA project (Feb 15, 2008) |  |  |  | Mr Minh H Pham, UNDP Resident Representative in Jamaica, and UN Resident Coordinator, launching the CBA project
| Participants at CBA Jamaica project concept development session, April 23, 2008. | Eroded, deforested slopes in a coffee-growing region in Jamaica's Blue Mountains. Slopes in these areas are particularly prone to landslides and erosion in the face of intense rainfall events and hurricanes, which are projected to increase in the face of climate change. | 
| | | Eroded and deforested slopes in Jamaica's Blue Mountains. |
| |  |  |  |  | July 2009 launch ceremony for the "Land & Preservation Measures to Combat Climate Change Pressures in Cockpit Country's Martha Brae Watershed" project in Bunkers Hill. Guests at the event included Members of the Jamaican and British Parliaments. |
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