Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is an ecologically and socially vital region, home to critical ecosystems like coral reefs, mangroves, seagrasses, cenotes, and coastal dunes. These provide essential services such as coastal protection, carbon sequestration, water regulation, and biodiversity conservation, supporting local livelihoods. However, sea-level rise, droughts, stronger cyclones, shifting rainfall, and ocean acidification are intensifying. These climate challenges, combined with human-driven threats like tourism expansion and unsustainable agriculture such as overfishing, endanger ecosystems and the communities and livelihoods that rely on them, particularly indigenous and vulnerable populations.

The project aims to increase the climate resilience of vulnerable communities, ecosystems, and productive systems by supporting locally led Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) interventions that enhance biodiversity, reduce climate vulnerability, and sustain essential ecosystem services in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

Some key activities are financing ten sub-projects to conserve, restore, and improve productive practices to increase communities’ adaptive capacities in coastal and marine landscapes, mobilising financing to scale up community-level activities, and knowledge sharing and enhanced coordination among local stakeholders, national agencies, and NGOs.

GCF's Project Preparation Facility (PPF) and Readiness Programme support were deployed to help develop the project.

Sustainable Communities for Climate Action in the Yucatán Peninsula (ACCIÓN)

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Gender assessment for SAP049: Sustainable Communities for Climate Action in the Yucatán Peninsula (ACCIÓN)

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Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

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People who have left their homes, whether through force, voluntarily, or a mixture of both

woman and genders outside of the gender binary

Households employing domestic workers, for activities like cooking, cleaning and subsistence farming, for their own use.

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Activities involving the catching, processing, and selling of fish for food, recreation, and industry.

This sector provides medical services, manufactures medical equipment, and develops pharmaceuticals to maintain and improve health.

the fair distribution of risks and opportunities of climate change and the transition to a regenerative economy, cognisant in particular of disproportionate impacts on vulnerable communities and the working class

Procedural justice means ensuring that decision making is safe, transparent and inclusive, emphasizing the agency and influence of vulnerable groups and those most impacted.

Gender assessment for SAP049: Sustainable Communities for Climate Action in the Yucatán Peninsula (ACCIÓN)

Impacted group

Just transition

Climate justice

Economic sector

Adaptation/resilience

Finance

Adaptation Fund

Climate Investment Funds

Green Climate Fund

Global Environment Facility