What is CityAdapt?

CityAdapt promotes climate resilience in urban areas through the implementation of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for adaptation. The project takes place in three cities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
CityAdapt strengthens the technical capacities of municipalities and citizens to analyze the impacts and vulnerabilities to climate change and identify appropriate nature-based solutions.
Duration 2017 -2021

News
December 4, 2020
Video: Regreening San Salvador
October 30, 2020
“Sponge City”: San Salvador uses nature to fight floods
Contact

About the Project: marta.moneo@un.org
Mexico: sergio.angon@un.org
El Salvador: leyla.zelaya@un.org
Jamaica: shanice.bedward-grant@un.org
This project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and executed by the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), together with the authorities environmental issues in each country (the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources – SEMARNAT of Mexico, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources – MARN of El Salvador and the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change – MWLECC of Jamaica), and the support of Euroclima +.
Partners
