CityAdapt
Jamaica - El Salvador - México
Project components
CityAdapt JEM is a project implemented in Jamaica – Kingston, El Salvador – San Salvador and Mexico – Xalapa (Veracruz), from 2018 to 2023. Financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the project It is executed by the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), with the support of Euroclima+.
Its goal is to increase the capacity of governments and local communities to adapt to the effects of climate change by integrating Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) into urban planning.
The project is made up of three components:
Innovation and impact of CityAdapt
CityAdapt provides tools for local governments to take on the task of planning to adapt to climate change, while at the same time managing to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from their cities by conserving their ecosystems.
November 2022
Nature4Cities
Approval of the Nature4Cities Readiness proposal in 7 countries of the region, derived from the results of CityAdapt.
June 2021
NbS guides
Octubre 2020
Webinar
Lanzamiento del curso en línea con 40 ciudades de 14 países latinoamericanos
Agosto 2019
CITYADAPT
Lanzamiento del nombre CityAdapt, logo y manual de identidad del proyecto
Mayo 2019
PNUMA
Firma del acuerdo de cooperación con ONU Mujeres para la implementación de actividades en San Salvador y Xalapa
Marzo 2018
ALTERRA
Inicia la asesoría técnica de ALTERRA - Universidad de Wageningen
Enero 2014
Propuesta
Propuesta enviada al GEF
Partners
This project is executed jointly with the environmental authorities 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 climate change department of the Ministry of Growth Economic and Job Creation (MEGJC) Jamaica.
El Salvador
Jamaica
Mexico
Strategic Partners
