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Over the past five weeks, Green Tides has taken listeners on a journey through the many dimensions of coastal resilience—from its scientific foundations and the role of education and capacity development, to digital innovation and the experiences of island communities living on the frontline of climate change.

In this final episode, we bring these perspectives together by exploring one of the key ingredients of effective coastal resilience: collaboration.
How do we transform scientific knowledge into practical solutions?
How can research better support the decisions of governments, institutions, and coastal communities?
Episode 5 explores how co-design, stakeholder engagement, and the DCC-CR's...

In this episode, we explore the challenges and opportunities facing coastal communities at the frontline of climate change.
From sea-level rise and coastal erosion to extreme weather events and ecosystem degradation, islands are experiencing some of the most immediate impacts of a changing ocean. At the same time, they are demonstrating how regional cooperation, ocean science, and capacity development can strengthen resilience and support sustainable coastal futures.
Featuring Lorna Inniss, Head of the IOCARIBE Secretariat, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, and Wenxi Zhu, Head of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO,...

What if we could test the impact of a storm before it ever reaches the coast?
We step inside the Digital Twin of the Ocean: a living, virtual replica of the real ocean, continuously updated with satellite data, coastal sensors, ocean models and artificial intelligence.
We explore how digital twins, AI, high-performance computing and forecasting systems help scientists and decision-makers anticipate coastal flooding, erosion, wave overtopping and other climate-related hazards, and what it takes, behind the scenes, to make those simulations reliable and secure.
Featuring Dott. Giovanni Coppini, scientist at CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change), Megi Hoxhaj, telecommunications engineer...

How can education protect the future of our coasts?
We unpack why ocean literacy is a core pillar of coastal resilience for scientists, citizens, communities, policymakers, and young professionals facing climate and ocean challenges firsthand.
We follow learners from Brazil to Nigeria, the Philippines and beyond through DCC-CR programmes such as Co-Growth, COMPASS and the OceanTeacher Global Academy, seeing how training turns knowledge into action, from climate adaptation and marine conservation to remote sensing, water-quality monitoring and community-based solutions.
Featuring Prof. Villy Kourafalou, Scientific Director of the DCC-CR; Isadora Timbó, coastal-resilience and climate-adaptation project lead at GITEC and member of...

What does coastal resilience actually mean? And why does it shape the future of every coastline on Earth?
In this opening episode of Green Tides, we trace how coastal resilience moved from a niche term to a global priority, from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and Agenda 2030 to the UN Ocean Decade. Then we get concrete, exploring how sea-level rise, coastal erosion, pollution and the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are reshaping coastal environments and the communities that depend on them.
You’ll come away understanding why protecting the coast is not about freezing it in time, but about helping...