Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development: Colombia Case Study
This case study explores Colombia's efforts to align its national-level policy processes under global agendas, highlighting the context-specific nature of the alignment process.
Fondo Acción
We are a Colombian private non-profit organization; created in the year 2000 within the framework of the Bilateral Agreement of the Initiative for the Americas.
Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios Ambientales
The Latin American Center for Environmental Studies (CELEAM) was born in 2013 as a program of the Mexican Organization for the Conservation of the Environment OMCA, a non-profit civil association.
Building climate resilience in cities
This CDKN Essential summarises learning from CDKN work in cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean in mainstreaming climate compatible development in cities.
Plan 4C: A Competitive and Climate Compatible Cartagena
Plan 4C: A Competitive and Climate Compatible Cartagena positions Cartagena as the first coastal city in Colombia to have a long term vision achieve climate compatible development by 2040.
Building climate adaptation capacity in water resources planning
This report synthesizes lessons from a three-year project that used participatory planning processes to build capacity and develop tools to support climate change adaptation in Colombian watersheds.
Proyecto de Conservación de Aguas y Tierras - ProCAT Colombia
ProCAT Colombia work to develop biological research and to promote social and cultural sustainable development goals using an interdisciplinary approach, including the human and natural dimensions
The Indirect Effects of Adaptation
This paper examines the possibility that measures taken to bolster livelihoods and adapt to climate change in one place could increase vulnerability elsewhere.
CAM, (Corporacion Autonoma Regional del Alto Magdalena)
Corporación Autónoma Regional del Alto Magdalena (CAM) is the public environmental authority at the department level in the Huila Department.
CORPOCALDAS (Corporacion Autonoma Regional de Caldas)
Ente corporativo de carácter público, creado por la Ley, integrado por las entidades territoriales que por sus cacterísticas constituyen geográficamente un mismo ecosistema o conforman una un
Universidad de Quindio
The University of Quindío (Spanish: Universidad del Quindío), is a public institution and department i
Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca (CVC)
The CVC was created on October 22, 1954 to stimulate the integrated development of the upper level of the Cauca Valley, being one of the first autonomous corporations in Colombia, and without a dou
Colombia Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM)
The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM) is a government agency of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of
Rios del Paramo al Valle
Colombian Landscape. Photo courtesy of Marisa Escobar
Rios del Paramo al ValleColombia's water resources management institutions need to evaluate water supply,...
PARA-Agua - Chinchina
Colombia Paramo. Photo curtesy of Marisa Escobar.
Robust Decision Support in the Chinchiná BasinThe project Partnering for Adaptation and Resilience (PARA-Agua) or "...
How to scale out community-based adaptation to climate change
The impacts of climate change are context specific and the resources and capacity available for adaptation are locally defined. As a result, adaptation activities must be localised...
Linking models
Policy makers and researchers in the MAPS (Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios Programme) countries, namely Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and South Africa are interested in...
Urban Health Risks
We explored whether the health risks related to air pollution and temperature extremes are spatially and socioeconomically differentiated within three Latin American cities: Bogota,...
Delivering Adaptation
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This experience is an innovative effort on the comprehension of the potential benefits of a risk management approach in the...
Colombia Vulnerability Assessment 2
Mangrove ecosystems in Tumaco face major pressures that make them susceptible, diminishing their capacity to adapt to potential impacts caused by...
Colombia Vulnerability Assessment 1
The ecosystems in Cartagena face several pressures that make them highly vulnerable, diminishing their capacity to cope with the effects of climate change.
Latin America Regional Strategy
This short overview of climate change issues in Latin America was written by Ben Smith and Tahia Devisscher as input to an Environment and Climate Change policy brief to inform the development of...
Key findings from Colombia NCAP Project
Describes the key findings of the Colombia NCAP project including: 1) system description of the project sites, 2) vulnerability assessments and scenarios, and 3) sea level rise adaptation measures.
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