Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region
The limited success of international efforts to reduce global warming at levels established in the Paris Agreement, and the increasing frequency and strength of climate impacts, highlight the urgent need of adaptation, particularly in developing countries. Unfortunately, current levels of adaptation...
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| author | Tereza Cavazos Maria Laura Bettolli Maria Laura Bettolli Donovan Campbell Roberto A. Sánchez Rodríguez Michelle Mycoo Paola A. Arias Juan Rivera Michelle Simões Reboita Carla Gulizia Carla Gulizia Carla Gulizia Hugo G. Hidalgo Eric J. Alfaro Tannecia S. Stephenson Anna A. Sörensson Anna A. Sörensson Anna A. Sörensson Ruth Cerezo-Mota Edwin Castellanos Edwin Castellanos Debora Ley Roché Mahon |
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| description | The limited success of international efforts to reduce global warming at levels established in the Paris Agreement, and the increasing frequency and strength of climate impacts, highlight the urgent need of adaptation, particularly in developing countries. Unfortunately, current levels of adaptation initiatives are not enough to counteract the observed impacts and projected risks from climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In this paper, we review and highlight relevant issues that have limited the capacity to transform climate knowledge and parties’ ambitions into action in the region. Current vulnerabilities and climatic impact-drivers in LAC are diverse, complex, and region-specific and their effects are expected to be exacerbated by climate change. However, the advancement of regional and domestic climate agendas has been hindered by scientific gaps, political support, institutional capacity, and financial, technical, human, and economic limitations that are common to many LAC countries. Transforming climate data into multidimensional metrics with useful thresholds for different sectors and understanding their contribution for feasible adaptation strategies are delayed by regional and local conundrums such as lack of inclusive governance, data availability, equity, justice, and transboundary issues. We discuss ways to move forward to develop local and regional climate resilient development actions and a more sustainable future in LAC. The climate science community in LAC needs to strengthen its local, national, and international connections and with decision/policymakers and society to establish a three-way engagement by proposing suitable adaptation actions and international negotiations to reduce the risks and vulnerability associated with climate extremes, climate variability and climate change in the region. The discussions and insights presented in this work could be extrapolated to other countries in the Global South. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e309658287e941abbe343da95a045e482024-04-23T14:07:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Climate2624-95532024-04-01610.3389/fclim.2024.13920331392033Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean regionTereza Cavazos0Maria Laura Bettolli1Maria Laura Bettolli2Donovan Campbell3Roberto A. Sánchez Rodríguez4Michelle Mycoo5Paola A. Arias6Juan Rivera7Michelle Simões Reboita8Carla Gulizia9Carla Gulizia10Carla Gulizia11Hugo G. Hidalgo12Eric J. Alfaro13Tannecia S. Stephenson14Anna A. Sörensson15Anna A. Sörensson16Anna A. Sörensson17Ruth Cerezo-Mota18Edwin Castellanos19Edwin Castellanos20Debora Ley21Roché Mahon22Departamento de Oceanografía Física, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California, MexicoUniversidad de Buenos Aires-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaInstituto Franco-Argentino de Estudios sobre el Clima y sus Impactos (IFAECI - IRL 3351), CNRS-CONICET-IRD-UBA, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDepartment of Geography and Geology, The University of the West Indies, Mona, JamaicaUniversity of California, Riverside, CA, United StatesDepartment of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, Faculty of Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and TobagoGrupo de Ingeniería y Gestión Ambiental (GIGA), Escuela Ambiental, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, ColombiaInstituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), Centro Científico Tecnológico CONICET Mendoza, Mendoza, ArgentinaInstituto de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Itajubá, Minas Gerais, BrazilInstituto Franco-Argentino de Estudios sobre el Clima y sus Impactos (IFAECI - IRL 3351), CNRS-CONICET-IRD-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina0Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos (DCAO), Buenos Aires, Argentina1CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina2Escuela de Física, Centro de Investigaciones Geofísicas y Centro de Investigación en Matemática Pura y Aplicada, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica3Escuela de Física, Centro de Investigaciones Geofísicas y Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica4Department of Physics, The University of the West Indies, Mona, JamaicaInstituto Franco-Argentino de Estudios sobre el Clima y sus Impactos (IFAECI - IRL 3351), CNRS-CONICET-IRD-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina1CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina5Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina6Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sisal, Yucatán, Mexico7Interamerican Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), Montevideo, Uruguay8Centro de Estudios Ambientales y de Biodiversidad, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala9Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL / ECLAC), Ciudad de México, Mexico0The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Bridgetown,, BarbadosThe limited success of international efforts to reduce global warming at levels established in the Paris Agreement, and the increasing frequency and strength of climate impacts, highlight the urgent need of adaptation, particularly in developing countries. Unfortunately, current levels of adaptation initiatives are not enough to counteract the observed impacts and projected risks from climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In this paper, we review and highlight relevant issues that have limited the capacity to transform climate knowledge and parties’ ambitions into action in the region. Current vulnerabilities and climatic impact-drivers in LAC are diverse, complex, and region-specific and their effects are expected to be exacerbated by climate change. However, the advancement of regional and domestic climate agendas has been hindered by scientific gaps, political support, institutional capacity, and financial, technical, human, and economic limitations that are common to many LAC countries. Transforming climate data into multidimensional metrics with useful thresholds for different sectors and understanding their contribution for feasible adaptation strategies are delayed by regional and local conundrums such as lack of inclusive governance, data availability, equity, justice, and transboundary issues. We discuss ways to move forward to develop local and regional climate resilient development actions and a more sustainable future in LAC. The climate science community in LAC needs to strengthen its local, national, and international connections and with decision/policymakers and society to establish a three-way engagement by proposing suitable adaptation actions and international negotiations to reduce the risks and vulnerability associated with climate extremes, climate variability and climate change in the region. The discussions and insights presented in this work could be extrapolated to other countries in the Global South.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2024.1392033/fulladaptation challengesLatin America and the Caribbeanclimate changeclimatic impact-driversgaps and commonalitiesrisks |
| spellingShingle | Tereza Cavazos Maria Laura Bettolli Maria Laura Bettolli Donovan Campbell Roberto A. Sánchez Rodríguez Michelle Mycoo Paola A. Arias Juan Rivera Michelle Simões Reboita Carla Gulizia Carla Gulizia Carla Gulizia Hugo G. Hidalgo Eric J. Alfaro Tannecia S. Stephenson Anna A. Sörensson Anna A. Sörensson Anna A. Sörensson Ruth Cerezo-Mota Edwin Castellanos Edwin Castellanos Debora Ley Roché Mahon Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region Frontiers in Climate adaptation challenges Latin America and the Caribbean climate change climatic impact-drivers gaps and commonalities risks |
| title | Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region |
| title_full | Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region |
| title_fullStr | Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region |
| title_short | Challenges for climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean region |
| title_sort | challenges for climate change adaptation in latin america and the caribbean region |
| topic | adaptation challenges Latin America and the Caribbean climate change climatic impact-drivers gaps and commonalities risks |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2024.1392033/full |
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