| Project Detail |
Coastal communities in the APEC region are increasingly vulnerable to coastal hazards as climate change increases the intensity and frequency of adverse weather events and reduces the natural resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. The growing costs and business interruptions resulting from these vulnerabilities threaten the resilience of critical infrastructure, businesses, communities, and ecosystems. Building multi-sectoral, multi-level capacities to implement holistic cross-sector resiliency is key to preventing and mitigating the growing cost of the environmental “new normal” and to rehabilitating and building back better after disaster. The United States has developed an APEC Coastal Resilience Framework, aimed at providing a foundation upon which private and public sector stakeholders can develop and implement relevant policies and programs to improve coastal resilience. This work also leverages the findings of the “APEC Needs Assessment & Gap Analysis: Guiding Policy Directions to Promote Coastal Resilience”, endorsed in March 2024. The objective of this project is to develop a practical, demand driven implementation plan for the APEC Coastal Resilience Framework (CRF). |
