“We know from bitter experience that even the most carefully crafted fi scal adjustment programme can be quickly derailed by a major climate event. Buying adequate insurance cover offers an efficient way of transferring some of this risk. The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is an excellent vehicle for this purpose.”
The COAST insurance product supports governments’ efforts to rapidly put money into the hands of persons in the fisheries sector impacted by extreme weather, providing them with
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, April 27, 2020. CCRIF SPC invites applications for scholarships for 2020/21 to support students pursuing Masters level degree programmes in areas such as disaster risk management (DRM), natural resources management, climate change, civil with environmental engineering, actuarial science, and meteorology, among others. These scholarships are tenable at universities in the Caribbean, USA, UK and Canada and can be for either online or face-to-face programmes.
Guatemala (/ˌɡwɑːtəˈmɑːlə/ GWAH-tə-MAH-lə; Spanish: [gwateˈmala]), officially the Republic of Guatemala (Spanish: República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, Honduras to the east, El Salvador to the southeast and the Pacific Ocean to the south.