Climate change is a complex, global phenomenon, and one of the broadest ways to address it at a national or local level starts with understanding policy and the directions it takes. To understand how climate change adaptation is framed through policy, in the context of the low-lying and highly populated atolls of Lakshadweep, we began by developing a framework that gave us a bird's-eye view of how adaptation is implemented across 14 other islands and island groups in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans.

We then looked into the details to curate a wide set of "solutions" that are either being planned or implemented. We started with the polities that had explicitly included climate change in their policies, and segregated these solutions based on whether they were hard, soft, nature-based, or social.

The next step is to look beyond the information available in policy documents alone, and to build an archive of peer-reviewed papers and unofficial reports published by organisations such as the UNDP, UNEP, FAO, World Bank, Green Climate Fund, and others to expand our understanding of what "solutions" look like in climate change adaptation across different island polities. 

Following this, the task would be to assess where these solutions fall on the spectrum of adaptive to maladaptive, particularly in the context of low-lying atolls.

The ultimate goal is to produce a creative yet informative report to support decision-makers on which solutions might be feasible to implement on the islands.