A Strategic Approach to Climate Mobility Adaptation and Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean

A Strategic Approach to Climate Mobility Adaptation and Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean

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A Strategic Approach to Climate Mobility Adaptation and Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean

July 9, 2024

Latin America and the Caribbean is increasingly suffering climate change shocks such as wildfires, storms and floods, and climate stresses such as sea level rise and prolonged drought. Extreme weather events, shocks and stresses are drivers of human mobility and displacement. UNDP is committed to building resilience in the region; that is why three policy documents have been developed to strategically address adaptation to and preparedness for climate mobility in the region.

The first of these policy documents is based on a revision of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Action Plans (NAPs) because of their potential to improve adaptation, resilience and measures to address climateinduced loss and damage. The second policy document is an experience that analyzes climate mobility lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean from the experience of Colombia. The third document is titled "Mapping Climate Mobility Hotspot Risks”, which proposes a preliminary conceptual framework to assess risks and prepare responses to climate mobility.

These group of documents identified opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean to: strength public awareness and engagement with climate mobility; work on entry points to improve diagnostics of potential hotspots and strengthen strategies for promoting adaptation and resilience; enhance practical solutions to human mobility within the NDCs and NAPs and related climate policy instruments, and to learn from good practices at the national and subnational level from the Colombian experience.