Latin America & The Caribbean - Climate Fragility Risk Brief

Latin America & The Caribbean – Climate Fragility Risk Brief

This brief identifies five major climate-fragility risks, i.e. five pathways by which climate impacts undermine security; damage to key infrastructure, especially energy infrastructure, higher tensions around mining and fossil fuel extraction; the encouragement of environmental crime; the destruction of livelihoods, which pushes people to migrate or commit crimes in crowded cities; and higher incidences of disease.

Year: 2020

Author: Erthal, A., Rüttinger, L., Adelphi and Igarapé Institute

Keywords: marine habitats

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The CLME+ Hub is an initiative of the Secretariat of the CLME+ Interim Coordination Mechanism (ICM), in collaboration with the CLME+ ICM and CLME+ Project Executive Group (PEG) and (prospective) Partner Organizations.. Development of the Hub has benefited from the financial support of the UNDP/GEF Project: “Catalysing Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for the Sustainable Management of shared Living Marine Resources in the Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystems” (CLME+ Project, 2015-2020). The CLME+ Project is executed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in close collaboration with a large number of global, regional and national-level partners. For more information on the CLME+ Project click here

Latin America & The Caribbean – Climate Fragility Risk Brief

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