Project on climate change adaptation makes strides in Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 16 (ACN) Several national and foreign institutions and organizations keep implementing the project “Climate Change Resilience in Cuba's coastal zone through ecosystem-based adaptation”―better known as Mi Costa―led by the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment in coordination with the ministries of Agriculture and of Higher Education, the National Institutes of Hydraulic Resources and of Regional and City Planning, the Latin American School of Social Sciences, and UNDP’s Climate Fund.

Designed to strengthen climate change adaptation along 1,300 km of Cuba’s southern coast by making its ecosystems less vulnerable, Mi Costa has an eight-year-long implementation period and will be in operation for 22 years in 24 municipalities and seven settlements in seven Cuban provinces, where workshops and training courses will be organized for government officials, economic actors, and local residents.

The project addresses patterns related to climate change and adaptation, water resources, sustainable soil management, coastal wetlands, marine ecosystems, community perception, and theoretical and methodological assumptions of popular education, and it also envisages actions on blue carbon contents in mangroves, salt marshes and swamps, seagrasses, peatlands and, potentially, macroalgae.