Key implications for LAC of the IPCC Working Group II Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Opening Remarks 

Carlos Mendez, Vice-Chair Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC. General Coordinator of the Regional Center for the Study and Use of Savannahs (CREAS).

Gustavo Máñez, Climate Change Coordinator for Latin America & the Caribbean, UNEP 

• Round Table 

Why it is relevant to have a regional scope over adaptation? 

What are the Cross sectoral, intra-regional, and inter-regional issues including consideration of temporal scale? 

Guest: Debora Ley, Lead author, IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Economic Affairs Officer, Energy and Natural Resources at UN ECLAC. 

• Round Table

Central America has high exposure to droughts, what adaptation options are there? including opportunities, enablers, limits, barriers, adaptive capacity, and finances. 

How should local communities adapt to variabilities in Central America? 

Guest: Edwin Castellanos, Coordinating Lead Author Central and South America Chapter, IPCC Assessment Report Sustainable Economic Observatory Director at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Member of the IAI Scientific Advisory Committee

• Round Table

Small Islands are commonly labeled as the “hot-spots” of climate change, may you tell us the risk suffered by them?  

What are key adaptation challenges of the Caribbean islands? 

Guest: Michelle Mycoo, Coordinating Lead Author Small Islands chapter, Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management at the University of The West Indies.  

• Round Table

Given the heterogeneity of data, it is possible to have a coordinated adaptation regional plans?

The population in the region is increasingly concentrating in cities, what are the main adaptation strategies for urban areas? 

Guest: Carlos Mendéz, Vice-Chair Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC. General Coordinator of the Regional Center for the Study and Use of Savannahs (CREAS). 

Q&A 

Closing: Piedad Martin, Deputy Regional Director for Latin America & the Caribbean, UNEP