In many countries, administrative and economic planning occurs at the municipality level.
We believe that relevant policies for adapting to climate change can be initiated at this level …

Institutional capacity is one of the dimensions of adaptive capacity that determines the level
and pace of climate change adaptation at the local level. Local governments are key actors …

Institutions play a key role in planning and implementing climate change adaptation in Latin
America and the Caribbean. However, absence of integration between different government …

Climate change has been argued to be the single largest threat to human society and will be
especially pronounced in Caribbean Small Island Developing States. Adaptive capacity …

Despite the growing number of studies focusing on urban vulnerability to climate change,
adaptive capacity, which is a key component of the IPCC definition of vulnerability, is rarely …

In studies of climate change vulnerability, an important constraint relates to the uncertainty of
the climate projections that local governments need to estimate precisely the risks and …

Although urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are not major GHG
emitters, they play crucial, yet understudied roles in the climate change arena. They are not …

Since cities are both a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and highly vulnerable to the
consequences of climate change, many are starting to take actions to mitigate and confront …

Adaptation is a local-level process where the key stakeholders are the local population and
their organizations. Assessing local adaptive capacity is a fundamental step in developing a …

Climate change is projected to affect Latin America and the Caribbean as a result of
increased temperatures and changed rainfall patterns. The impacts of climate change are …