The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Spanish Office for Climate Change (OECC) that operates under the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, and the Environmental Hydraulics Institute "IH Cantabria" of the University of Cantabria have developed a specific methodology to assess the impacts of climate change on coastal areas, which they have made available to Latin American and Caribbean countries.
This methodology and the tools of the “Study of the regional effects of climate change on the coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean” are very useful for assessing impacts, proposing adaptation measures and carrying out an economic analysis of these adaptation measures. These studies also enrich the analysis on a local level delivered by the Regional Studies of the Economics of Climate Change (ERECC), technically coordinated by ECLAC, which help countries and regions identify the implications of climate change on their economies and citizens.
Specifically, the “Study of the regional effects of climate change on the coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean” comprises a total of six publications: four main documents and two ancillary documents.
The first contain a stakeholder analysis, a study of coastal vulnerability, an assessment of the possible impacts of climate change and the integration of all factors in the evaluation of risks associated with some of the impacts identified on the region’s coastal areas. One of the ancillary documents focuses on the theoretical effects of climate change and serves as a handbook on the concepts, processes and coastal phenomena analysed in the study. The other examines in a comprehensive way the methodology developed for the risk study.
Finally, a web viewer of the results has been developed in the context of the project to promote the dissemination of the results in the region’s countries.
Source (ECLAC): Link to original news source
Documents (in Spanish):
- Dynamics, trends and climatic variability
- Impacts
- Risks