The Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) has highlighted the Coral Triangle Initiative’s efforts to ensure climate change adaptation in the world’s most bio-diverse marine environment by featuring the CTI Region-wide Early Action Plan for CCA in its December 2011 newsletter. CAKE (www.cakex.org) noted that the early action plan sets forth urgent and immediate actions that need to be taken across the Coral Triangle to build coastal community resilience to climate change.  CAKE is a free online database of climate change adaptation resource materials and is a joint project of Island Press and EcoAdapt. It has a virtual library of case studies of on-the-ground adaptation efforts, useful resources and tools to support adaptation action and a directory of individuals and organizations working on climate change.  Some of its featured resources include Planning for Coastal Resilience, Best Practices for Calamitous Times by Timothy Beatley and Vulnerability of Tropical Pacific Fisheries and Aquaculture to Climate Change  by Johann D. Bell, Johanna E. Johnson, and Alistair Hobday.

Source: USCTI Support Program Monthly Update January 2012