Climate change adaptation planning in Latin American and Caribbean cities: Castries, Saint Lucia

The Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Latin American and Caribbean Cities project is designed to inform policy making and climate change adaptation planning in small and medium-sized cities. The focus is on floods and landslides, which are two of the most common climate-related risks in cities across the Latin America and Caribbean region. This report focuses on the city of Castries, Saint Lucia.

The planning themes that create the foundation for a climate change adaptation strategy to help Castries build its resilience against floods and landslides, both now and in the future, are as follows (p. 95):

• devolved risk management and planning capacity at the city level for Castries;
• capacity building in national and city level government institutions engaged in climate change planning and risk management;
• mechanisms for data collection, storage and dissemination to be created and/or improved for better climate monitoring, risk planning, and information sharing;
• improved insurance mechanisms and climate financing for long-term recovery and building resilience against floods and landslides;
• cross-scale integration of risk management practices;
• a shift from disaster management to long-term risk reduction and climate change adaptation to ensure a proactive and forward-looking system of risk governance.