The Commonwealth Secretariat and the US-based Stimson Center have embarked on a new phase of their groundbreaking project, which aims to identify climate vulnerability and risks in coastal communities through the use of a new rapid assessment protocol.
A new method to swiftly assess the climate vulnerability of island and coastal communities has been successfully trialled in Barbados, Kiribati and Sri Lanka.
The Commonwealth Secretariat and US-based Stimson Center have teamed up to pilot a new process to quickly determine climate vulnerability and risks in coastal communities. This ‘rapid assessment protocol’, developed under the Stimson Center’s Coastal Resilience Vulnerability Index (CORVI) Project, will be trialled in the Commonwealth countries of Barbados, Kiribati and Sri