Northeastern University, through a one million US federal grant is partnering with three communities in Barbados and Dominica over the next two years to develop plans to respond to climate change and extreme weather events.
The partnerships will enlist the help of leaders and residents along with education officials in the Caribbean to design projects based on local need.
The grant, awarded by the United States Agency for International Development, goes into effect July 1.
The goal is to address locations where the impact of climate change is most urgent and to eventually scale the lessons learned across other small island states in the Caribbean and Pacific regions.
Founding Director of the University’s Global Resilience Institute, Professor Stephen E. Flynn says lessons learned can also be applied to mainland societies in North America and Europe.
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