Enhancing Coastal Resilience Against Climate Change

The document proposes a four-year programme (2017-2021) to enhance coastal resilience in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It targets the most vulnerable populations, particularly women and the poor, through a grants-on-lending framework focusing on coastal protection, food and water security, health, renewable energy, and tourism. The programme aims to fund at least 20 local investment projects with individual grants ranging from USD 300,000 to USD 600,000, requiring a 20% counterpart contribution from grantees. The initiative emphasizes ecosystem-based adaptation, such as mangrove rehabilitation and coral reef restoration, to mitigate the impacts of sea-level rise and extreme weather events which have historically caused severe GDP losses in the region.

• The Caribbean region is highly vulnerable to climate change, with 60% of the population living within 1.5 kilometres of the coast, exposing them to saltwater intrusion, beach erosion, coral bleaching, and storm surges.
• The programme will request a maximum of USD 20 million in grant resources from the Green Climate Fund, with no single country allowed to access more than 25% of the total funds.
• Individual grants will range from a minimum of USD 300,000 to a maximum of USD 600,000, based on an 80:20 cost-sharing ratio between the donor and the grantee.
• The project identifies a critical threshold of 1.5C for marine and coastal ecosystems and notes that Caribbean coral reef live cover has declined by 50% since the 1970s.
• Proposed innovative adaptation activities include climate-smart agriculture, wastewater recycling, solar-powered reverse osmosis for potable water, and coastline stabilization through mangrove rehabilitation.
• The programme targets the most socio-economically disadvantaged, noting that women and children are more likely to die during extreme events and female-headed households often have lower financial security.
• The project aims to commit at least 20 local adaptation and mitigation investment projects across the eight target countries by the first quarter of the second year.
• The region faces high energy costs, ranging from US$0.22 kwh in Belize to US$0.40 kwh in Jamaica, which impacts the competitiveness of local products.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2016). Enhancing Coastal Resilience Against Climate Change. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/15130-enhancing-coastal-resilience-against-climate-change.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Enhancing Coastal Resilience Against Climate Change. 2016. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/15130-enhancing-coastal-resilience-against-climate-change.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2016enhancing, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Enhancing Coastal Resilience Against Climate Change}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2016}, month = aug, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/15130-enhancing-coastal-resilience-against-climate-change.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }