CORVI removes the silos from decision making and provides a data-driven city-specific risk assessment detailing a city’s challenges across 10 risk categories, ranging from ecosystems to major industries to social demographics.
Full Assessments
Full CORVI assessments are designed to provide a comprehensive and holistic picture of climate and ocean risks. Over 12-18 months, a full assessment analyzes close to 100 risk indicators across 10 categories of ecological, economic, and social/political risk. For each assessment, Stimson works with local experts to conduct desktop research, hold a technical workshop, conduct expert surveys, complete interviews with key stakeholders, and construct risk scores. This process informs the Climate Risk Report with specific findings and concrete recommendations, which is then used to inform additional discussions with local decision makers to translate the report into action.
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- Belize City, Belize
- Aruba
Rapid Assessments
CORVI rapid assessments are designed to help coastal cities and island states identify priority areas of climate risk that demand greater attention and prioritize the most pressing actions. During a condensed 6-month process, a rapid assessment analyzes 35 risk indicators identified by reviewing the results of previous CORVI assessments in the region and informed by local stakeholders. This is a subset of the 100 risk indicators in a full CORVI assessment. For each assessment, Stimson works with local experts to hold two technical stakeholder workshops, conduct expert surveys, and construct risk scores. Once research has been completed, a final Climate Risk Summary Report with high-level findings and recommendations is created and presented in a final workshop.
