Keywords: climate change, climate adaptation, adaptation, vulnerability, National Adaptation Plan
Caribbean SIDS are the least to contributors and are the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. With limited natural resources and small economies of scale, the economic cost associated with climate change is estimated to be 15% of the combined GDP. With climate change and the Sustainable Developing Goals in mind, infrastructure systems have the ability to address these issues. Key Words: Climate mitigation, Sustainable Developing Goals, Small Island Developing States, SIDS,
This report was written in a collaboration between the Government of St. Lucia, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the University of Oxford-led Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC). The report examines the possible vision for the island’s future infrastructure aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. this report equips Saint Lucia with a robust approach to infrastructure planning that can ensure that social, economic, and environmental needs are met in a range of future scenarios. Through extensive data collection and cross-sectoral analysis, this report estimates Saint Lucia’s future infrastructure needs for...
The Government of Saint Lucia continues to take a strategic approach to the development of the energy sector and to this end, in 2010 elaborated a comprehensive national energy policy. In 2018, the country also adopted its National Energy Transition Strategy, which is intended to chart the way forward for the inclusion of RE in the electricity generation mix. While there has been some attention given to the whole issue of renewable energy and its inclusion in the generation mix, there has not been a similar level of attention paid to the study of energy efficiency and the benefits which...
Key perfomance indicators for Intergrated Resource and Resilience Planning. The webinar aimed to place focus of incorporating resilience into long term power sector planning, develop scenariors with KPIs and weighting and capacity builfing to guid countries into developing their own scenrios for IRRPs. The countries taking part in the webinar are Belize, Jamaica, Guyana, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.
The 2018 Energy Report Card for Saint Lucia provides an overview of energy sector performance and includes energy efficiency, projects, technical assistance, workforce, training and capacity building information, subject to the availability of data. Key Words: ERC, Energy Report Card
The 2017 Energy Report Card for St. Lucia provides an overview of energy sector performance and includes energy efficiency, projects, technical assistance, workforce, training and capacity building information, subject to the availability of data. Key Words: ERC, Energy Report Card