CORVI

Data-Driven Resilience

Risk Assessments

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 provide a comprehensive and holistic picture of climate and ocean risks. Over 18 months, a full CORVI assessment analyzes up to 100 risk indicators across 10 categories of ecological, economic, and social risk. For each CORVI assessment, Stimson works with local experts to conduct desktop research, hold technical stakeholder workshops, conduct expert surveys, complete interviews with key stakeholders, and construct risk scores. This process informs a comprehensive climate risk report with specific findings and concrete recommendations to build resilience.

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In Aruba — where the economy is tethered to the health and resilience of coastal ecosystems — climate change is an existential threat
Carolyn Gruber • Natalie Fiertz • Tracy Rouleau...
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Measuring climate vulnerability – and finding practical ways to increase resilience – in Belize City
Natalie Fiertz • Carolyn Gruber • Sally Yozell...
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Toamasina faces significant risks from worsening flooding, unmanaged waste, widespread poverty, inadequate public service coverage, and degraded natural ecosystems
Natalie Fiertz • Carolyn Gruber • Noah Fritzhand...
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Suva faces significant risks from extreme weather events, reliance on climate-vulnerable industries, marine ecosystem destruction, invasive species, and rapid urbanization
Miko Maekawa • Nagisa Shiiba • Jack Stuart...
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Chattogram faces significant vulnerabilities from extreme weather events, rapid urbanization, vulnerable coastal ecosystems, a large informal economy, and fragmented governance
Emadul Islam • Natalie Fiertz • Tracy Rouleau...
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Dagupan faces significant vulnerabilities from perennial flooding, evolving new threats to water security, and lack of waste or sewage treatment infrastructure
Queenie Cunanan • Tracy Rouleau • Krystell Año...
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Basseterre faces significant vulnerabilities from extreme weather events, vulnerable coastal ecosystems, unreported fishing, and a reliance on imported fossil fuels
Natalie Fiertz • Tracy Rouleau • Sally Yozell...
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A holistic city-based assessment of the climate risks facing Mombasa, Kenya.
Jack Stuart • Sally Yozell • Dr. Valentine Ochanda...
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A holistic city-based assessment of the climate risks facing Dar es Salaam.
Jack Stuart • Sally Yozell • Dr. Valentine Ochanda...

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.

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Mauritius’ coastal communities, coral reefs, mangroves, and fisheries face compounding climate threats from tropical cyclones, flash flooding, sea level rise, saltwater intrusion
Natalie Fiertz • Tracy Rouleau • Noah Fritzhand...
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Dominica’s coastal and marine communities, marine ecosystems, tourism, and fisheries are vulnerable to growing extreme weather, compounded by financial and human resource constraints
Natalie Fiertz • Tracy Rouleau • Sally Yozell...
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Sri Lanka’s Western Province faces significant vulnerabilities from flooding, urbanization, and economic instability
Natalie Fiertz • Sally Yozell • Tracy Rouleau...
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The southwestern urban corridor of Barbados faces significant vulnerabilities from flooding, heatwaves, coastal erosion, and other climate and ocean risks.
Natalie Fiertz • Sally Yozell • Tracy Rouleau...
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The island of Tarawa faces significant vulnerabilities from coastal flooding, shortcomings in solid waste and sewage management, and marine ecosystem degradation.
Natalie Fiertz • Sally Yozell • Tracy Rouleau...