The impacts of climate change on territories and communities have intensified, making it essential to accelerate investments that strengthen local human capacities to implement adaptation plans that prevent the impacts and effects of climate change and eliminate territorial inequalities by reducing vulnerabilities. To achieve this ambition, collaboration among actors and stakeholders capable of implementing equitable climate adaptation—with short-, medium-, and long-term measures that minimize maladaptation trade-offs—becomes crucial.
Thus, this panel aims to foster a transdisciplinary dialogue between technical, scientific, and local knowledge from a horizontal and integrative perspective, presenting different methodologies and approaches to adaptation as a pathway for territorial and local development. The panelists will present diverse perspectives on increasing investment and financing for adaptation and on strengthening prevention capacities against the impacts of hydrological events and their effects, which deepen regional and global inequalities across Latin American territories.