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**Project background**:
Mexico is a country particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, due to its geographic location, topography and socioeconomic characteristics. The inertia of the climate system makes the climate changes expected in the near future mostly inevitable, so adaptation actions and strategies in the socioecosystem are necessary and urgent. Namely, Mexico’s climate scenarios for the period between 2015 to 2039 show annual temperature increases of up to 2°C in the north of the country, with variations of 1 to 1.5°C throughout most of its territory. This is expected to have significant economic, social, and environmental consequences: a 1°C-increment over the average general temperature could reduce the Gross National Product (GNP) between 0.77 and 1.76%. The Mexican Government (through its Sectoral Program for Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, PROMARNAT ) has estimated that 68% of population and 71% of the GNP are exposed to adverse climate change impacts. It has been estimated that the increase in temperature will cause losses in agricultural, industrial, and public services. Even under a scenario of compliance with the Paris Agreement, net climate change costs are projected to increase in this century, exceeding 130% of Mexico’s Gross Domestic Product of 2010 (this figure will be larger under a global inaction scenario).



The Mexican islands most affected by rising sea levels are in the Gulf of California and the Caribbean Sea. In scenarios of sea level rise of 1 and 5 meters, between 1 and 3.8% of the national island surface could be submerged. Left unchecked, it is projected that by 2050, up to 11% of the Mexican population -14.6 million people
- could be internally displaced for climate reasons, affecting women and girls disproportionately.
To counter this, Mexico recognizes that adaptation is a fundamental component in the long-term global response to the impacts of climate change. To reduce the vulnerability of the region and increase its resilience it is necessary to transit from the ad hoc implementation of individual adaptation projects, to streamline adaptation into policies and to plan with a medium and long-term perspective. National Adaptation Plans (NAP) provide the framework to mainstream adaptation in all sectoral policies and foster adaptation in the long-term. The NAP process seeks to identify medium
- and long-term adaptation needs, informed by the latest climate science. Once major vulnerabilities to climate change have been identified, the NAP process develops strategies to address them. The NAP approach was established under the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) and re-emphasized in the Paris Agreement. Crucially, NAPs follow a continuous iterative process that is country-driven, participatory, and transparent. The two overarching objectives of NAPs are to:




- Reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change by building adaptive capacity and resilience;
- Integrate adaptation into new and existing national, sectoral, and sub-national policies and programmes, especially development strategies, plans and budgets.
Countries can utilize the NAP process and its outcomes to update and improve the adaptation elements of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), a central part of the Paris Agreement.
Several financial support channels will be available for the NAP process, including bilateral and multilateral channels. In Paris in 2015, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) was requested to expedite support for the formulation of NAPs and the implementation of programmes, projects and policies identified in the NAPs in developing country Parties. Through the GCF Board decision B.13/09, paragraph (e), the GCF provides financial support for the formulation of NAPs through its Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme.
Mexico's updated its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2022, which includes a specific section on adaptation and, above all, an ecosystem-based approach. Namely, Mexico’s National Adaptation Policy (NAP) document will mirror the NDC's 5 key subcomponents from its adaptation chapter (e.g., Subcomponent A. Prevention and attention to negative impacts on the human population and in the territory; Subcomponent B. Resilient productive systems and food security; Subcomponent C. Conservation, restoration and use sustainable biodiversity and ecosystem services; Subcomponent D. Integrated management of water resources with climate change approach, plus Subcomponent E. Protection of strategic infrastructure and tangible cultural her

📌 Individual Consultant, Nap Axis D - Subcomponent - Water Resources (Mexico) (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Global Green Growth Institute
📍 Ciudad de México