Central America and the Caribbean: two extreme cases of asymmetry between low emissions and high vulnerability

In Latin America and the Caribbean, two subregions stand out for their great vulnerability to climate change and the small share of emissions they generate: Central America and the Caribbean. The climatic, geographical and socioeconomic peculiarities of these subregions are justification for analysing them separately. This chapter presents the emissions profiles of the countries of these two subregions and projects them out to 2030 in the context of their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). It also discusses the potential effects of climate change, higher temperatures and rising sea levels before going on to analyse the occurrence and effects of extreme events and, in the particular case of the Caribbean, consider the initiative of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to have debt swapped for adaptation to climate change.

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