GES Professor advises the World Bank’s Inspection Panel on Coastal Climate Change
Published: 3 October 2023
Professor Larissa Naylor, a climate change expert from the University of Glasgow, has helped the World Bank Inspection Panel shape a decision on a community facing the effects of coastal erosion.
Professor Larissa Naylor, a coastal climate change expert from the University of Glasgow has helped the World Bank Inspection Panel shape a decision on an African community facing the effects of coastal erosion. The coast in this region of the world is rapidly eroding causing rapid land loss and substantial impacts on communities and their livelihoods.
In 2021, the Inspection Panel received a complaint brought by members of communities near the site of the West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project in Togo. Professor Naylor was one of three experts whose opinion on the project was sought during the investigation, alongside world-leading specialists in fishers’ rights and involuntary resettlement.
Professor Naylor prepared a technical annex for the Inspection Panel, which examined the present and future of coastal erosion on the West African coastal barrier system, where the affected community is based. The Inspection Panel has highlighted this work in a World Bank blog.
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First published: 3 October 2023