Building Resilience with Nature: Lessons from WINDREF’s Innovative Grey-Green Infrastructure Project in Grenada
Since its launch in 2016, the CBF’s EbA Facility has financed 34 projects across the region, helping countries pilot and upscale solutions that place nature at the heart of climate resilience. In Grenada, WINDREF’s ING Project is a vivid example of how this approach delivers lasting positive results for both ecosystems and communities.
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Coastal communities in the Caribbean are on the frontlines of climate change. Rising seas, stronger hurricanes, and eroding coastlines threaten lives and livelihoods. For years, the default response was to build more seawalls and concrete barriers. Yet these “grey” solutions alone are rarely enough. They often fail to keep pace with changing conditions and do little to restore the ecosystems that naturally protect shorelines.
In Soubise, Grenada, the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF)’s Innovative Grey-Green Infrastructure (ING) Project is showing a different way forward. The project was funded through the Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Facility of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF), with support from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and the KfW Development Bank. It demonstrates how blending engineered structures with restored ecosystems can both protect coastlines and create new opportunities for communities.
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