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This project evaluated climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation issues in the Quito, Ecuador, region to provide key information and guidelines to support adaptation planning and implementation.
The goal is to increase the resilience of the Metropolitan District of Quito to the effects of climate change and enhance the sustainability of livelihoods and ecosystems, especially for the most vulnerable sectors, by gathering solid, verifiable information.
Significant climate alterations are already evident, including a mean temperature increase over the last 100 years of about 1.2ºC and an 8% decline in cumulative annual precipitation during this last decade. Increased frequency and intensity of extreme events, receding ice caps, fragility of water supply systems, impacts affecting biodiversity, appearance of diseases and pests as well as dramatic changes in production and consumption patterns are creating a new reality for the Quito region.
The Quito Climate Change Strategy (EQCC), approved in October 2009, is the first response by a local government in Ecuador to the above issues. SEI is supporting a key first step, gathering crucial information and guidance to help the Municipality understand vulnerability and achieve planned adaptation to climate change in the areas of intervention. The ultimate goal is to enhance the adaptive capacity of the District, its ecosystems and its economic and social systems.
Perspective / Sweden takes over the Council of the EU presidency, January 2023. It should use its mandate to increase the EU's sustainability ambitions, say SEI researchers.
Past event / SEI Senior Scientist Laura Forni presents a short lecture on how conserving páramo land in Ecuador preserves water supply for a rapidly urbanizing country.
Past event / Join this webinar with SEI's Sivan Kartha reviewing Civil Society Equity Review's latest report and discussing the fossil fuel phase-out given current events.
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