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Climate
Adaptation
UNDP works with countries in the promotion of climate resilient development by integrating adaptation into policy and practice. UNDP looks to enhance national capacities in integrating climate change adaptation needs into policy, planning, and investments through National Adaptation Plans (NAP) and their alignment with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Through the mobilization of resources, UNDP supports countries in the implementation of adaptation investments that generate scalable solutions particular to the region as well as in guiding financing strategies for their upscale. Through these actions UNDP aims to foster resilient communities that benefit from climate resilient livelihoods, secure food and water resources, protected ecosystems, adaptive infrastructure, and development while enhancing preparedness for climate impacts to reduce climate related losses across multiple development sectors.
Our work includes agriculture and food security, water resource management, coastal zone protection, ecosystem-based adaptation, resilient infrastructure, urban resilience, livelihoods, and climate information/early warnings.
Climate Promise and NDCs
UNDP is scaling up support to solidify countries' climate ambition and help turn their Paris Agreement targets into action. We provide technical and strategic support to countries to advance and enhance their climate agenda. Countries receive targeted support along three pillars: a) supporting inclusive, gender-responsive governance and financing mechanisms to align policy, strategies and regulatory frameworks with climate goals; b) enhancing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to foster long-term sustainable pathways, offering direct support for long-term strategies and net-zero, climate resilient pathways; and c) Ensuring whole-of-society engagement by creating stakeholder engagement platforms, supporting leaders in NDC implementation, and fostering approaches like the People’s Climate Vote and knowledge-sharing platforms.
Climate and Forests
UNDP's work on forests in the region contributes to SDGs 13 on Climate Action and 15 on Life on Land while addressing their close linkages. The forest and land use sector can provide up to one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals needed to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis and in regions such as LAC, agriculture and land use accounts for over 40% of the region’s greenhouses emissions.
UNDP employs a social inclusion approach when promoting forest and climate policies and investments, to ensure effective stakeholder engagement and promote the rights of Indigenous peoples and forest communities, who are key knowledge holders and custodians of forests, as well as agents of change. The process mainstreams gender equality and encourages women's empowerment principles and policy reforms towards more equitable land use and tenure systems. Through projects and programmes such as UN-REDD, UNDP supports countries to design and implement policies and measures to reduce deforestation and manage forests sustainably, contributing to climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, increased resilience, green livelihoods, and sustainable development.
