Dominica: Climate & Resilience

The UN Foundation brought five journalists to the Caribbean island nation of Dominica to explore the impact of climate change in the context of the ocean and Small Island Developing States. In 2017, Dominica was devastated by a Category 5 hurricane that destroyed 95% of the island’s infrastructure. Despite its extreme vulnerability, Dominica has declared its intent to become the world’s first-climate resilient nation. Journalists interviewed a wide variety of people involved in this work, from government officials and eco-tourism entrepreneurs to those implementing early warning systems, as well as the country’s only wildlife ecologist and the region’s largest-remaining Indigenous community.