The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is helping cities in Latin America and the Caribbean to adapt to climate change with a project titled Building climate resilience of urban systems through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Funded by the Global Environment Facility, the project aims to reduce the vulnerability of communities to climate change in three cities - Xalapa (Mexico), Kingston (Jamaica), and San Salvador (El Salvador) using a practice known as ‘Ecosystem-based Adaptation.’
This case study examines payments for ecosystem services as a potential long-term sustainable mechanism to finance EbA in Xalapa, Veracruz.
