The U.S. Navy is turning to climate resilience planning to protect its operations in low-lying coastal areas across the Caribbean.
Naval officials hope that measures such as mangrove restoration and coral reef protection will reduce the risks from rising seas and increasingly severe storms. Such steps could not only help the Navy’s mission, they say, but also safeguard local communities from climate-fueled disasters.
Meredith Berger, assistant secretary of the Navy for energy installations and environment, said working with Caribbean nations is crucial to the effort.
“It is those resources and those reliances that are going to be the things that will help at every step of the way, whether we are talking about military missions [or] community resilience,” she said.
