The Ngäbe-Bugle, Guna Yala and Embera indigenous regions and Bocas del Toro, Veraguas, Los Santos and Darien provinces currently stand out as the most vulnerable sites to climate change in Panama.
According to a national study presented this week, some of these regions show a very low adaptive capacity, expressed through the effects of heavy rains and extended periods of drought.
According to the study, this situation generates effects in agricultural and social activities and the sea level, which produces the slow disappearance of territories in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the country.
For this reason, we work in a perspective to achieve the decarbonization of the economy, the management of vulnerability and climate risk, which allows us to increase resilience at the national, local and sectoral levels, the study stated.
As a result of this strategy, a series of climatic, biophysical and socioeconomic indicators that helped to identify the territories most prone to threats to achieve their adaptation were analyzed.
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