What does coastal resilience look like for island communities living on the front line of climate change?

In this episode of Green Tides, we travel from the Caribbean to the Western Pacific to see how island states face rising seas, stronger storms, coastal erosion, coral reef degradation and rapid urbanisation, often all at once, in what scientists call multi-hazard systems.

We dig into why these communities are seen as early indicators of global change, and why resilience is about environmental justice, access to knowledge, economic stability and who has the resources to adapt.

Featuring Lorna Inniss, UN Ocean Decade expert on the Caribbean coastal region; and Wenxi Zhu, UN Ocean Decade expert on the Western Pacific coastal region.

Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience⁠⁠⁠⁠

And our partner ⁠UNESCO⁠

Green Tides is a podcast by the DCC-CR (Decade Collaborative Centre for Coastal Resilience), produced by Podstar.

Narrator: Federica Orsi

Writing: Lorenzo Molino

Sound design: Antonio Mezzadra

Graphics: Laura Fracasso

Producer: Ester Memeo

Production support: Annalisa Prestianni

Special thanks to CMCC – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and Deltares.