Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Asia Pacific

Project Title 

Building climate resilience of urban systems through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in the Asia-Pacific region

Project factsheet

Description

Increasing urbanization, coupled with limited urban planning, puts cities at risk from climate change. In many countries, climate change is expected to bring more extreme rainfall leading to flooding, water scarcity, and disasters. Increasing temperatures and hot days also pose health risks and threaten agricultural production in peri-urban areas.

Ecosystem-based approaches to Adaptation (EbA) are a cost-effective approach to reduce the vulnerability of urban and peri-urban communities to climate change. The vulnerability of these communities is reduced by protecting, maintaining and rehabilitating priority ecosystems such as wetlands, forests, and agroecological systems. The project has the following components that will support delivery against the objectives:

1. Institutional strengthening and capacity building of city management authorities in pilot cities to plan and implement urban EbA
2. Demonstrating urban EbA interventions in pilot cities
3. Disseminating knowledge and raising public awareness on urban EbA in pilot cities

Specific interventions in the pilot cities range from reforestation, agriculture, and wetland restoration along with support to livelihoods, especially urban poor communities. The project was designed hand in hand with a sister project in Latin America that covers El Salvador, Jamaica, and Mexico.

Media & Resources

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For more information about the project or UNEP’s work in climate adaptation, contact us here UNEP-Climate-Adaptation@un.org