CANARI Issue Paper No. 2 – Rising to the climate challenge: Coastal and marine resilience in the Caribbean

Climate change poses a critical challenge for Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS). Rising sea levels and sea surface temperatures, ocean acidification and more intense hurricanes and storms, and the resulting impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems, pose significant threats to communities, livelihoods and key economic sectors that depend on these ecosystems. CANARI Issue Paper No. 2 – Rising to the climate challenge: Coastal and marine resilience in the Caribbean highlights important lessons and innovations from work by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) to build resilient coastal and marine ecosystems and liveli¬hoods in Caribbean SIDS using a participatory and socially inclusive approach. The issue paper draws on ten years of work by CANARI and its partners across the Caribbean, particularly under the following projects: · Climate Change Adaptation in the Fisheries of Anguilla and Montserrat, 2017-2020, funded by the United Kingdom Government under the Darwin Initiative · Engaging Civil Society in Strategic Action Programme Implementation under the Catalysing Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the Sustainable Management of Shared Living Marine Resources in the Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystems (CLME+) Project, 2017-2021, led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) (32 countries and territories across Latin America and the Caribbean) · Powering Innovations in Civil Society and Enterprises for Sustainability in the Caribbean (PISCES), 2017-2020, funded by the European Union EuropeAid Programme (10 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago) · Regional Implementation of a Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of Coastal and Fishing Communities under the Climate Change Adaptation in the Eastern Caribbean Fisheries Sector Project (CC4FISH), 2017-2020, led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and funded by GEF (5 countries: Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago) · Strengthening Caribbean Fisherfolk to Participate in Governance Project, 2013-2016, funded by the European Union EuropeAid Programme (17 countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos)

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