HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 1 (ACN) Representatives of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) will sign in this city a project called Mi Costa (My Coast).
José Fidel Santana Núñez, First Deputy Minister of CITMA, and Consuelo Vidal, UNDP Resident Coordinator in Cuba, will sign the document, financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), according to Elier Tamayo García, a communications specialist with CITMA.
The GCF was established in 2020 at its current venue in Songdo, a new district of Incheon, South Korea, to help developing countries to adapt to climate change and to mitigate its effects, according to its website.
At its March 19 session, the GFC approved 23.9 million dollars for an eight-year resilience project targeted on the Cuban southern coastline, a fund to be complemented by the Cuban government with a view to implementing an ecosystem-based adaptation approach for coastal protection.
The 30-year-long Mi Costa will improve climate resilience for more than 1.3 million people and protect vulnerable coastal habitats. The Environment Agency and CITMA are responsible for its introduction with UNDP support.
Mi Costa will contribute to the fulfillment of the Paris Agreement adopted on April 22, 2016 at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One of its main goals in the case of Cuba is to improve the current approaches to 1,300 kilometers of coastline spanning 24 municipalities.
It also provides an important basis for the implementation of the State Plan to tackle climate change, known as Tarea Vida (Task Life).
Cuba is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and the Cuban government has made impressive progress in terms of sustainable development by acting on coastal erosion, flooding, saline intrusion, drought and sea level rise, all of them threats to the Island’s hard-won economic and social achievements.
Ratified by the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change entered into force in March 1994, with the aim of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
The project will restore more than 11,000 hectares of mangrove, 3,000 hectares of swamp forests and 900 hectares of swamp grasslands. It will also help the ecosystems to act as barriers to climate change impacts.
Mi Costa will be in line with the results of Manglar Vivo (Living Mangrove Swamp), a successful coastal resilience project funded by the Adaptation Fund and implemented by UNDP and the Environment Agency.
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