{"id":5841,"date":"2018-06-08T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2018-06-07T22:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T03:22:42","slug":"cdb-announces-usd1-5mn-to-build-greater-climate-resilience-through-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/cdb-announces-usd1-5mn-to-build-greater-climate-resilience-through-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"CDB announces USD1.5mn to build greater climate resilience through technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank has approved a project that aims to increase the use of technology to build greater climate resilience throughout the Region. Funded through a grant of USD1.5 million and to be executed by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbeanclimate.bz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC)<\/a>\u00a0over a three-year period, the project approved on May 28 will support flight-mapping services to collect Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data for almost 10,000 square kilometres of vulnerable Caribbean coastal areas.<\/p>\n<p>The grant provides resources for the preparation of an Intellectual Property Policy (IPP) and the creation of a product development and marketing strategy for the Centre, as well as the training of 38 end-users from the Bank\u2019s Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) in the applications of LiDAR data.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGenerating quality scientific data and information products, data sharing, and ease of data access and transfer, are important aspects of building climate resilience across the Region because they support an improved understanding of climate risks and impacts,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said\u00a0<strong>Daniel\u00a0<em>Best, Director, Projects Department, CDB<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLiDAR-based mapping technology can therefore assist the Region in addressing some of the problems being experienced, due to the absence of geo-spatial data for decision-making, and improve the capacity of stakeholders to make better-informed decisions, for more effective management of natural hazard and climate risks<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribank.org\/news\/cdb-announces-usd1-5mn-to-build-greater-climate-resilience-through-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0 Pixabay (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pexels<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank has approved a project that aims to increase the use of technology to build greater climate resilience throughout the Region. Funded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":5842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[121,233,198],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-caribbean","tag-climate-weather","tag-disasters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/desert-drought-dehydrated-clay-soil-Pixabay-Pexels.jpeg?fit=1024%2C698&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-1wd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4568,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/cdb-president-announces-up-to-usd-800-million-for-disaster-recovery-amid-strong-bank-performance-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":5841,"position":0},"title":"CDB President announces up to USD 800 million for disaster recovery, amid strong Bank performance in 2017","author":"Michele Marius","date":"February 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr. Wm.\u00a0Warren Smith, \u00a0today announced that the institution is making USD700 to 800 million (mn) available to help Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) recover from the impact of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season. 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