IUCN Climate Change and Coral Reefs working group

Since 2007, CORDIO provides the coordination and chairing of the IUCN Climate Change and Coral Reefs working group.

See the website of the working group for additional information and its publications on coral reef, seagrass, mangrove and social resilience to climate change.

Assessing coral reef resilience

A primary output of the IUCN-CCCR is a general method for measuring resilience of coral reefs, to which CORDIO's experience in coral reef monitoring contributed significantly.

Obura, D.O. and Grimsdith, G. (2009). Resilience Assessment of coral reefs – Assessment protocol for coral reefs, focusing on coral bleaching and thermal stress. IUCN working group on Climate Change and Coral Reefs. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 70 pages.

Coral bleaching video

In addition to these publications, a DVD on coral bleaching resistance and resilience has been produced. A version in Arabic is available from HEPCA (Egypt) and other languages are being considered.

See chapters of the DVD here