Climate Resilient Islands
Tuvalu
Tuvalu became part of Climate Resilient Islands in 2022.
As a low-lying atoll country rising to a maximum elevation of 1.8m, Tuvalu is defined by its marine ecosystems, with lagoons, reefs and open ocean, which are essential to their traditional ways of life. However, these ecosystems are uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise, saltwater inundation and other risks such as drought. Across four islands, Climate Resilient Islands is focused on working with the Indigenous knowledge embedded in the partner communities of Funafuti, Nukufetau, Papaelise and Vaitupu to inform nature-based solutions to these challenges.
Climate Resilient Islands is a New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade initiative, implemented by Live & Learn with funding from the New Zealand Government.
Community Resilience Profile & Planning
The Climate Resilient Islands programme is working with 65 rural communities in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu to strengthen community resilience to climate change through nature-based approaches.
The programme uses a complex range of approaches and concepts, combining a diversity of activities communities can use to explore the interdependence of people and ecosystems, understand ecological complexity and develop nature-based plans for adaptation and resilience.
The CRI Toolkit details the approaches helping create climate resilience across CRI partner communities.
Throughout the Climate Resilient Islands programme, we think about how three different things are combined when working with climate resilience: absorptive capacity, adaptive capacity, transformational capacity.
These are symbolised in the programme by the coconut palm, crab and butterfly. These three capacities relate to the levels of challenges communities face and the changes required to meet these challenges throughout all six partner countries in the CRI programme.
Climate Resilient Islands
Climate Resilient Islands is working with rural communities in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands and PNG to strengthen community resilience to the impacts of climate change through nature-based approaches.
Learn more about how the programme is working in other partner countries through the pages below.
Climate Resilient Islands is a New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade initiative, implemented by Live & Learn with funding from the New Zealand Government.