Saint Lucia’s climate financing strategy
Saint Lucia's National Adaptation Plan (NAP) has been defined as a 10-year process (2018-2028), consisting of priority cross-sectoral and sectoral adaptation measures for eight key sectors/areas and a segment on the "limits to adaptation," complemented incrementally with Sectoral Adaptation Strategies & Action Plans (SASAPs). Priority sectors for adaptation action include: tourism; water; agriculture; fisheries; infrastructure and spatial planning; natural resource management, renamed resilient ecosystems (terrestrial, coastal and marine); education; and health. Other key sectors will be identified through a cyclical, iterative NAP process.
Access to finance is a key barrier to the implementation of climate change adaptation actions throughout developing countries. As a small island developing state (SIDS), Saint Lucia is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and is expected to need to mobilise relatively substantial international technical and financial resources to address climate change and its impacts. These resources will come in a variety of forms and sources: financial and nonf inancial; public and private; national and international.