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How the list is organized:

We have provided you with a list of high-quality resources relevant to climate change adaptation in Latin America. The list begins with Regional Resources in both Spanish and English, then country-specific resources.

To help you use the list more efficiently, we have labeled some resources recommended and others optional. Recommended resources provide a broad but through overview of topics relevant to climate change adaptation. They are a great starting point for your work in adaptation. Optional resources are complementary and can be consulted after the recommended resources. Compared to recommended resources, they may be narrower in scope, more specialized, or present similar information in a different way.   

Regional Resources:

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Recommended

Optional

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Recommended

  • IPCC AR6 Regional fact sheet – Central and South America: (One-page Paper, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/factsheets/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Regional_Fact_Sheet_Central_and_South_America.pdf) -- This is a one-page, very high-level summary of the climate change information presented for Central and South America in the 6th IPCC Assessment Report.
  • IPCC Working Group I Interactive Atlas (Web Resource,https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/) -- This is an interactive mapping tool for exploring the observed and projected climate change information presented in the 6th IPCC Assessment Report. World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal (Interactive Web Resource, https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/) – This resource provides country- and watershed-specific climate change profiles, including an overview, climate data, changes by sector, vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptations. Click on ‘country’ or ‘watershed’ to select the desired location from a world map. Click on ‘country profiles’ for a list of available fact sheets by country.
  • USAID ClimateLinks Regional and Country Risk Profiles and GHG Emissions Fact Sheets (Web Resource, https://www.climatelinks.org/climate-risk-management/regional-country-risk-profiles) – This resource provides a list of links to region- and country- specific ‘at-a-glance’ climate change profiles. Click on a specific country to see a high-level summary of key climate projections and impact areas, and links to additional resources, including risk profiles and GHG fact sheets. Some country resources are translated to Spanish while others are not. 

Optional

  • Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems: a region by region overview (Paper, https://doi.org/10.1002/ehs2.1211) – This review highlights extreme regional variation in climate change threats and impacts, and how these factors impact the structure of mangrove communities, their biodiversity and geomorphological setting. 
  • Climate Change and the Baja California Peninsula (Report, https://issuu.com/climatesciencealliance/docs/2021bajareport_english?fr=sZjI3YzM5ODI1NDc) - An overview of available downscaled climate knowledge for the peninsula. 
  • AR5 Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability - Coastal Systems and Lowlying Areas (Report, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WGIIAR5-Chap5_FINAL.pdf) – This chapter of IPCC’s 5th report on climate change focuses on coastal systems and the specific impacts projected there.
  • Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean and their implications for development (Paper, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-015-0854-6) – This paper synthesizes what is known about the physical and biophysical impacts of climate change and their consequences for societies and development under different levels of global warming in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • The impact of climate change on mangrove forests (Paper, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40641-015-0002-x.pdf) – This review critically assesses the impact of climate change on mangrove ecosystems.
  • Large-scale impact of climate change vs. land-use change on future biome shifts in Latin America (Paper, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13355) – This paper projects the estimated relative impacts of climate change and land use changes for Latin America under four socio-economic development scenarios.
  • Current state of knowledge regarding South America wetlands and their future under global climate change (Paper, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-012-0253-8) – This paper reviews the projected extent of climate change impacts on South America’s wetlands.
  • IPCC 6th Assessment Report: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability - Central and South America (Report, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_Chapter12.pdf)– This chapter of the IPCC’s 6th report focuses on the climate change impacts projected in Central and South America, and how this region is prepared to adapt. 

Country and Territory Resources:

Caribbean and Puerto Rico:

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Recommended

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Recommended

  • CARICOOS (Caribbean Ocean Observing System). (Mapping tool, https://www.caricoos.org/climate-variability). CARICOOS is the United States Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System. This effort, funded by the NOAA IOOS office (https://ioos.noaa.gov), is one of eleven regional observing systems that together with other federal agencies make up the national coastal component of the Integrated Ocean Observing System of the United States. 

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Recommended

  • Committee of Experts and Advisors on Climate Change (CEACC). (Website, https://www.drna.pr.gov/ceacc/). The Committee of Experts and Advisors on Climate Change (CEACC) is the body created under Law 33-2019, known as the "Puerto Rico Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience Act", which establishes the formation of a Committee of Experts and Advisors to outline a Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience Plan.

Colombia:

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Recommended

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Dominican Republic

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Recommended:

El Salvador:

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Recommended

Guatemala:

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Recommended

Optional

Honduras:

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Recommended

Optional

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Mexico:

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Recommended

  • Sexta Comunicación Nacional y Segundo Reporte Bienal de Actualización ante la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (Report, https://cambioclimatico.gob.mx/sexta-comunicacion/) - This is Mexico’s latest communication on its efforts to combat climate change under its treaty obligations for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
  • Buenas prácticas y lecciones aprendidas (Report, https://www.gob.mx/conanp/documentos/buenas-practicas-y-lecciones-aprendidas) – This report from the government of Mexico explains best practices learned in the management of natural resources under climate change.
  • México ante el cambio climático (Website, https://cambioclimatico.gob.mx/) - This is the main website for Mexico’s national efforts to combat climate change and serves as a clearinghouse for resources and publications.

Optional

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Optional

  • Spline models of contemporary, 2030, 2060 and 2090 climates for Mexico and their use in understanding climate-change impacts on the vegetation (Paper, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-009-9753-5) – This paper proposes models, which are directly suited for inferring plant–climate relationships and, therefore, in assessing impact of and developing programs for accommodating global warming.
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies in temperate forests in Central Mexico: a participatory approach (Paper, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-013-9477-8) – This paper analyzes forests in central Mexico and the importance of land degradation as a factor that increases vulnerability to warmer than normal temperatures that may result in forest fires
  • Climate Change Vulnerability and Resilience: Current Status and Trends for Mexico (Report, https://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-18136.pdf) – This report, prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy, assesses the current resilience of Mexico and Mexican states to climate changes, as well as how this resilience will look in the future.

Paraguay:

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Recommended

Peru:

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Recommended

  • El Perú y el Cambio Climático Tercera Comunicación Nacional del Perúa la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático (Report, https://www.minam.gob.pe/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tercera-Comunicaci%C3%B3n.pdf) - This is Peru’s latest communication on its efforts to combat climate change under its treaty obligations for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
  • Herramientas / Cambio Climático (Tool, https://www.senamhi.gob.pe/?p=cambio-climatico) - This tool from Peru’s Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología is a collection of data, maps, and research that explain climate change past, present, and future in Peru.

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