A Child-Centred Climate Analysis for Building Resilience
Climate Trend and Socioeconomic Impact Analysis examines how climate change is affecting children across the Eastern Caribbean and identifies priorities for strengthening child-sensitive climate resilience.
Highlights
According to the Climate Trend and Socioeconomic Impact Analysis study, close to 50% of children in the Eastern Caribbean region, are currently exposed to three or more climate hazard, with the figure expected to double by mid-century.
Covering Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Dominica and Saint Lucia, the study assessed climate trends, child-centered vulnerabilities, socioeconomic impacts, and the regional cost of inaction, and resulted in a set of policy recommendations focused on four key areas: anticipatory action, shock-responsive social protection, structural resilience, and fiscal transformation.
The findings and recommendations are to the benefit to multiple sectors and ministries including Education, Social Protection and Finance, and will serve to strengthen opportunities to build child-sensitive climate resilience in the respective countries.
