Please join Region 2’s Climate Adaptation Initiative Committee (CAIC) for a Lunch & Learn on Framing and Messaging Climate Change. This event will feature Subject Matter Experts who will discuss climate change as a risk to infrastructure and natural resources, climate change disinformation and misinformation and talk about the importance of messaging climate change to communities.

Join us for an interactive webinar on current programs and resources for advancing individual and community health and wellbeing in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The global COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts continue to have a disproportionate effect on vulnerable populations. This webinar highlights various organizations and programs working in the USVI and nationally to help residents and communities improve health outcomes as well as overall resilience.

Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have unique historical, geographic, ecological, social, and cultural dynamics. They face climate challenges that require science-based, locally-driven, culturally-informed solutions. This conference will gather leaders in government, business, society, and nonprofits to share insights, support, experiences, and solutions to the immediate and urgent challenges posed to island communities by climate change. Speakers will address the shared priorities to save lives, protect economies and the environment, and sustain livable communities, as well as measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build back better in a more sustainable, healthy, equitable and resilient way.

Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have unique historical, geographic, ecological, social, and cultural dynamics. They face climate challenges that require science-based, locally-driven, culturally-informed solutions. This conference will gather leaders in government, business, society, and nonprofits to share insights, support, experiences, and solutions to the immediate and urgent challenges posed to island communities by climate change. Speakers will address the shared priorities to save lives, protect economies and the environment, and sustain livable communities, as well as measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build back better in a more sustainable, healthy, equitable and resilient way.

This session is being held by the University of Delaware, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration’s Island Policy Lab through a grant by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. We will discuss new and innovative tools, processes and technologies that can promote islands’ energy sustainability.

This session is being held by the University of Delaware, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration’s Island Policy Lab through a grant by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. We will discuss new and innovative tools, processes and technologies that can promote islands’ energy sustainability.

This session is being held by the University of Delaware, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration’s Island Policy Lab through a grant by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. We will discuss new and innovative tools, processes and technologies that can promote islands’ energy sustainability.

This session is being held by the University of Delaware, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration’s Island Policy Lab through a grant by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. We will discuss new and innovative tools, processes and technologies that can promote islands’ energy sustainability.

The HMRP team at UVI is hosting a webinar titled “Rethinking Resilience in the Virgin Islands” on Thursday August 26, 2021 from 12-1:30pm. If you want to learn about best practices for building resilience, then make sure to register at the following link: Rethinking Resilience in the VI — USVI HMRP (resilientvi.org)

We have all recognized the importance of building resilience in territory in order to withstand, and quickly rebound from, disasters. Now, we must figure out how to make resilience a reality.

Both of our guest speakers were former Chief Resilience Officers of Dominica (Pep) and Boston (Atyia). They have first-hand experience in operationalizing resilience in government agencies so that both places could be in a better position to handle shocks and stressors. Their experience will give us great insight on to what is required to "achieve" resilience, and what barriers need to be overcome.

Please visit the Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Plan website for more information about this webinar: https://resilientvi.org/engineering-for-disaster

Tomorrow's infrastructure, houses, buildings and new construction must be resilient to the impacts caused by hurricanes, earthquakes, rising seas, and other disasters.

In this webinar, we will hear from experts, Dr. David Smith and Esteban L. Biondi, about the work they have done over the past 20 years in the Caribbean and Latin America to make coastal infrastructure more resilient and adaptable to the risks of tomorrow.

Although drought comes slowly it can still take us by surprise.

This webinar will talk about drought, its impacts, and what is being done in our community to overcome the negative impacts of this natural hazard.

Missed this event? Watch it here on Youtube: https://youtu.be/oK4Go0VjiiI