Resilience to climate vulnerability and environmental risk (RECOVER) with a focus on small islands

About this project

Small island developing states (SIDS) are on the frontlines of climate change. They consistently rank high on a range of risk and climate vulnerability indices and have limited ability to withstand significant shocks and changes. Maladaptive and climate-insensitive development practices – such as loss of intertidal habitat due to coastal erosion, high import dependency and centralized energy systems – magnify SIDS’ climate vulnerability. Mitigating these risks is crucial for small islands to withstand climate impacts and avoid cascading dysfunction of environmental, economic and social systems. The goal of this project is to enhance small islands’ capacity to adapt to climate change through more inclusive and research-informed decision environments. It is centred on mitigating systemic risk related to critical resource availability, self-reliance and sustainability and (in)equities in cost and benefit distributions. Among its activities, the project will propose climate-resilient business models, develop a framework for metabolic risk assessment related to water, and identify the potential for reducing material and energy demands. The project will carry out four pilot studies in Mauritius, the Maldives and Fiji. This will create hubs of innovation and scalable and systems-changing climate-resilience approaches to enhance understanding of small island climate adaptation capacities and possibilities. This project is part of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience initiative (CLA…

Published by

International Development Research Centre · Other public sector

Countries

Mauritius, Maldives, Fiji

Sectors

Research/scientific institutions

Focus

Climate adaptation · Main focus

Published by International Development Research Centre to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-301-2-110158-001.

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