Governing Board

One of the most visible impacts of climate change can be seen in coastal zones. The potential for severe damage along the coastline from salinization, strong coastal storms, heavy rain, strong winds, and associated storm surges and inundation will increase dramatically. The impacts of climate change are likely to worsen problems that coastal areas already face.

Confronting existing challenges that affect man-made infrastructure and coastal ecosystems, such as shoreline erosion, coastal flooding, and water pollution, is already a concern in many areas. Addressing the additional stress of climate change may require new approaches to managing land, water, waste, and ecosystems. If not addressed, these will have long term impact on soil salinization and agriculture production, leading to the issue of water and food security.

Continuous engagements need to be developed with the coastal communities to help them to adopt different strategies to cope as well as work on adaptation strategies to the changing ground situations. In alignment with the same, CSPC team has been working with an integrated approach for the upliftment of the coastal communities and to build their capacity to deal with the salinity issues, which would be there forever with them.