Resilient Transport in Small Island Developing States : From a Call for Action to Action
Small island developing states (SIDS) are among the most exposed, vulnerable countries in the world to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. SIDS are already experiencing significant economic and social losses from climate change impac...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099840104262222525/P1641570ed55c3096098670e0fd1a73eb3a http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37430 |
| Summary: | Small island developing states (SIDS)
are among the most exposed, vulnerable countries in the
world to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change.
SIDS are already experiencing significant economic and
social losses from climate change impacts. Extreme weather
events such as flooding and hurricanes significantly affect
the transport sector, with damage from such events
accounting for a large percentage of total infrastructure
damage costs. The need for climate adaptation is recognized
in SIDS’ nationally determined contributions to the Paris
Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change. The World Bank supports its clients in
implementing nationally determined contribution objectives
and actions. The World Bank’s programmatic technical
assistance, Resilient Transport in Small Island Developing
States, implemented with the aim of enhancing the resilience
of the transport sector in SIDS, was delivered in three
phases. The objective of this report is to help
practitioners integrate climate resilience considerations
into transport asset management and thus enhance climate
resilience in the transport sector of SIDS (Phases 2 and 3
of the technical assistance). The report starts by
introducing the topic of natural hazards and climate change
in SIDS and how they affect the transport sector. The report
describes how governments can develop resilient transport
asset management systems (TAMS) and then summarizes the
activities implemented in four SIDS, Cape Verde in Africa,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean, and
Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in the Pacific,and shares
lessons learned to improve the approach and framework.
Finally, the report introduces an online training course on
resilient TAMS and the i-Knowledge platform |
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