Climate Blueprint: Dominica
After Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017, the nation made a radical vow: to become the world’s first climate-resilient country. Five years on, they have the plan to make it reality.
Island stories
Climate
Blueprint
A documentary series about the smallest countries on earth leading extraordinary global change. Each film runs twenty-five minutes and follows one nation showing the world what it means to build a truly hopeful and resilient future.
A documentary series presented by RESI.
The series
Small Island Developing States sit at the sharpest edge of the climate crisis, and their survival depends on action. They are also where the answers are being built first. These short films tell the remarkable stories of small island nations like Dominica, Barbados and Vanuatu fighting for a better planet and future for humanity.
The films
Climate Blueprint: Barbados
Barbados is leading a global charge to dismantle the outdated financial systems that leave climate-vulnerable nations drowning in debt. Can Prime Minister Mia Mottley and the Bridgetown Initiative unlock trillions for the climate emergency?
Climate Blueprint: Vanuatu
Vanuatu has spent decades sounding the alarm on climate injustice. Now, with a landmark ICJ advisory opinion secured, the world must answer: when climate harm is a legal responsibility, who will be held to account?
More films are in production.
WinnerBest Documentary ShortAlbany Film Fest2023
Official SelectionHollywood Best Indie Film Awards2024
Official SelectionGreen Screen Environmental Film Festival2024
Semi FinalistSan Francisco Arthouse Short Festival2024
Why RESI makes films
The Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) creates films to inform and inspire hope in people and governments around the world.
Despite facing global inequity and extreme climate impacts, small island communities have chosen resilience and self determination. Through unwavering ambition and effective leadership, nations including Dominica, Barbados and Vanuatu are pioneering solutions for recovery, reform and justice.
As a flagship initiative of global advisory network ODI Global, RESI has worked with Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and their partners since 2021 to frame policy problems, influence international institutions, and open access to climate finance.
Climate Blueprint is how the research reaches past the people already reading it. A farmer rebuilding on higher ground. A fisherwoman observing the heating seas. A student who helped carry her country’s case to the world’s highest court. These are the stories which help turn evidence into policy for change.
Human stories, wider rooms
The films were built to work in more than one room.
They screen at COP and during UN General Assembly week. They screen at film festivals, universities, embassies, and neighbourhood theatres. They open ministerial convenings and they close public evenings. Delegates watch them. So do people who simply care about people and planet.
If you would like to host a screening in your organisation or community group, contact RESI to find out more.