Heritage Colombia (HECO): Resilient Landscapes that Maximizes Contribution to Colombia´s Mitigation and Adaptation Goals

Heritage Colombia (HECO) is a paradigm changing program, that through a resilient landscapes approach and a long term financial scheme, will strengthen the adaptation and mitigation to climate change of rural Colombia through the, protection and sustainably management of important ecosystems and ecosystem services, reducing deforestation and degradation in the country’s carbon-rich ecosystems. This program focuses on 9 landscapes and will deliver verifiable climate mitigation and adaptation impacts through (1) improving land use planning; (2) reducing vulnerability of local livelihoods; (3) enlarge and improve management effectiveness of national and regional protected areas critical for the provision of ecosystem services; (4) develop and implement new mechanisms to increase funding for the country’s system of protected areas (SINAP).

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Wide Fund For Nature
Other Authors: Communications Division
Format: Other biblioteca
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:LANDSCAPE PROTECTION, CLIMATE CHANGE,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/28927
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