Middle Paraná Delta: Strengthening adaptation planning – a co‑creation workshop

Summary

These two documents present both the abstract and the full report of the first co‑creation workshop on climate change adaptation in the Middle Paraná Delta, held on 10 March 2022. Through a hybrid format bringing together local government, academia, civil society organisations and regional stakeholders, the workshop aimed to enhance shared understanding of priority knowledge gaps and vulnerabilities linked to three key themes: food security, land‑use planning and local tourism.

Using the UNFCCC’s Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative (LAKI) methodology, participants validated four major knowledge gaps—insufficient integrated research on climate impacts, lack of mechanisms to mainstream adaptation into planning tools, limited economic and cost‑benefit information, and scarce analysis of impacts on agriculture and tourism—and linked them to specific local risks such as biodiversity loss, water scarcity, soil degradation, extreme weather impacts and socio‑economic pressures on island communities.

Through group discussions, mapping exercises and collaborative analysis, the workshop generated contextualised insights into adaptation needs, highlighted the importance of incorporating local knowledge (especially from islanders), and set the foundation for a second phase focused on co‑creating concrete adaptation strategies.

This summary has been translated from the report’s original language of Spanish.