Sustainable Communities for Climate Action in the Yucatán Peninsula (ACCIÓN)
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.
Project timeline
Pipeline
22 Apr 2021 • 1401 days
Concept note received
22 Apr 2021
Funding proposal received
27 Sep 2024
Cleared by GCF Secretariat
29 Nov 2024
Cleared by iTAP
17 Feb 2025
Approved
20 Feb 2025 • 40 days so far
Approved by GCF Board
20 Feb 2025
Under implementation
To be completed
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Financing
- Private sector
- Public sector
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Size
- Micro
- Small
- Medium
- Large
GCF financing
Instrument | Amount |
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Grant | USD 25,000,000 |
Total GCF Financing |
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USD 25,000,000 |
Co-financing
Co-financer | Instrument | Amount |
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Co-Financing | In-kind | USD 7,729,680 |
Total Co-Financing |
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USD 7,729,680 |
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Entity

Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza A.C.
Strengthening and Institutional Development Coordinator
Damas No. 49, Col. San José Insurgentes, Delegación Benito Juárez, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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National Designated Authority
Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Unit of Public Credit and International Affairs
General Director in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
Av. Insurgentes Sur 1971, Plaza Inn, Torre III, Piso 3, Col. Guadalupe Inn, Alcaldía Álvaro Obregón, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Director of Sustainable Financing
Av. Insurgentes Sur 1971, Plaza Inn, Torre III, Piso 3, Col. Guadalupe Inn, Alcaldía Álvaro Obregón, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Deputy Director in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
Av. Insurgentes Sur 1971, Plaza Inn, Torre III, Piso 3, Col. Guadalupe Inn, Alcaldía Álvaro Obregón, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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