How can small islands survive the coming climate crisis? Plan for smaller aid budgets and more disasters.

Patrick Lamson-Hall
3 min readJun 22, 2020
Rising seas threaten the first line of houses in Grenville, the second city of Grenada W.I.

As India and Bangladesh begin the long and costly process of recovering from Cyclone Amphan, what other countries in the time of COVID-19 have the will and the resources to aid them? Look to Vanuatu, a small Pacific island state, for answers.

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Patrick Lamson-Hall

I’m a Research Scholar at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. I’ve managed development projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean