Virtual Library

Introduction

The MSV Virtual Library  provides quality-controlled resources (including multimedia resources) on climate change impacts and adaptation in SIDS and the Arctic, and primarily targets regional and local leaders in the Arctic and SIDS in meetings and presentations.

The Virtual Library houses resources in order to support:

  • MSV’s overall communications strategy and key messages
  • MSV’s Knowledge and Research Component
  • Helping partners in affected regions tell their stories, raise awareness, and push for action.

Media Types within the Virtual Library

These will comprise a range of downloadable media, including articles/reports; graphics/maps; PowerPoint presentations; web-based tools; videos; and photo galleries.

Virtual Library  Themes

Climate Change Science

  • Impacts of climate change in Arctic and SIDS
  • Up-to-date research findings of relevance to Arctic/SIDS

Vulnerability & Adaptation

  • Traditional knowledge in Arctic and SIDS cultures (TK) to climate adaptation
  • Funding to support adaptation
  • Local case studies – highlighting adaptation in SIDS and Arctic
  • Adaptation and vulnerability tools; and guides to using these tools
  • Communicating Climate Change Adaptation
  • Human Rights/Cultural Survival & Climate Change

Mitigation

  • Local case studies of mitigation in action in Arctic and SIDS