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  1. Following Jamaican rivers from the hills to the ocean

    Photo by Jeffrey Valenzuela on Unsplash When the Jamaican sun gets too hot, locals and tourists alike head for the historic Spanish Bridge to take a cooling dip in the White River. Built in the 1770s, the bridge which links the parishes of St. Ann and St. Mary over the clear blue water has become...
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  2. GCCA+ in the news: Bicycles for volunteers in The Gambia

    Community-based Coastal Observer volunteers at events held in Tendaba and Abuko Nature Reserve working within the framework of the EU GCCA+ Climate Resilient Coastal and Marine Zone Project for The Gambia, received bicycles to help them perform their work. Samba Jawo, Country Coordinator for...
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  5. All aboard the ocean conservation bus!

    For locals and tourists alike, Samoa’s famous buses are an essential way to travel around the islands. The ancient, crowded and colourful buses - pumping out loud pop music as they make their slow way round the islands - are as much a part of the Samoan scene as a scuba dive or a fiafia night...
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  7. GCCA+ in the news: Water resources trainings in The Gambia

    Building institutional capacity in data management and visualisation, monitoring and predicting the weather, climate and water resources of the country are the focus of a series of trainings with the Department of Water Resources in the Gambia. The Department of Water Resources under the Ministry...
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  8. Ghana: Climate Change Resilience for Farmers at Lake Bosumtwe

    Planting 10,000 trees, learning how to produce biochar, the “black gold” for the soil, or trainings on plantain production are some of the activities of the project “Securing Climate Change Resilience and Mitigation by building Self-reliant Smallholder Farmers within the Lake Bosumtwe Landscape”. ©...
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  9. Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) in Southern Africa

    Increasing access to clean and affordable renewable energy technologies for productive use, promoting climate change mitigation measures in rural communities, create economic empowerment opportunities for women and promoting professionally managed DRE systems are the main objectives of a new...
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  11. Madagascar: innovations for sustainable food production

    The SERVInnov project has just come to an end, after four years of activities. The project was financed by the EU-African Union joint initiative LEAP-AGRI, under the coordination of CIRAD. It involved nine partners from five countries (France, Germany, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Madagascar) with...
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  12. Coffee for the climate: Robusta in Uganda

    The ROBUST project – growing Robusta coffee using agroforestry for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Uganda – represents a major investment using agroforestry practices for the production of Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora). The project is funded with €4.5 million from the European Union...
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  14. GCCA+ in the news: Coastal Resilience builds up in Cuba

    The Coastal Resilience program, financed by the European Union with four million euros, through the Global Alliance for Climate Change plus (GCCA+) benefits more than 600 900 people and contributes to strengthening communities facing the risk of catastrophes in 15 municipalities located on the...
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  15. EU GCCA+ Stories from a changing world - 2022

    Along the year 2022, the EU climate flagship initiative GCCA+ has continued to support adaption and mitigation of climate change in the most vulnerable countries. From the Pacific to Senegal, the Comoros or Mongolia, climate action continues across four continents. Protecting farmers, enhancing the...
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  16. Could tech and tradition save the farmers of the “Dry Corridor”?

    En français ci-dessous en PDF Covering six countries and stretching for more than 1600 kilometres, the Central American Dry Corridor is one of the world’s harshest climate hotspots. Home to around 11 million people, nearly a decade of drought has fuelled not only poverty and hunger, but is one of...
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  17. GCCA+ in the news: Integrated Land Management in St. Lucia and Grenada

    Understanding the environmental and cultural contexts of landscape management in the region - by conducting field visits and facilitating stakeholder mapping exercises - is one of the activities of the GCCA+ Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) Project with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean...
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  18. Restoring giant clams populations in Aitutaki, Cook Islands

    A significant number of pa’ua, or giant clams, bred through a Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) programme have recently been outplanted in Aitutaki, Cook Islands, in an effort to revive local populations of these vital marine animals. Ⓒ GCCA+ SUPA Aitutaki Marine Research Centre (AMRC) manager...
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  20. Building community resilience – Planting vetiver grass in Fiji

    In Vunivau village in Labasa, Fiji community members gathered to plant vetiver grass along the Nasuva creek. This marked the first on-ground implementation of the Soasoa/Vunivau/Basoga Integrated Watershed Management Plan (IWMP). The villagers of Vunivau, and their neighbouring communities are...
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  21. GCCA+ SUPA: “We are always worried about flooding”

    Scaling up the Soasoa drainage system in Fiji’ is a project to protect vulnerable coastal communities in the Macuata Province, especially the Soasoa community in Labasa, from coastal flooding and inundation through implementation of prioritized flood control measures in the Soasoa watershed area. "...
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  23. #GreeningEUcooperation: Let’s help build greener bridges – not burn them! Supporting partners implement their NDCs

    Patricia Rodriguez Fortun shared information from the group Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy 16 November 2022
    As part of efforts to contribute to global climate action and the pursuit of a decent life for all, the EU supports partners in the development of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and in their implementation. The same holds true for National Adaptation Plans, land policies, disaster...
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