SAP049

Sustainable Communities for Climate Action in the Yucatán Peninsula (ACCIÓN)

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.

Total project value

0.0

Beneficiaries

0.0

Direct
7,500
Indirect
2,301,980
Theme

Adaptation

Result areas

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

One region

  • Latin America and the Caribbean

One country

USD 0.0
  • Financing
    • Private sector
    • Public sector
  • Size
    • Micro
    • Small
    • Medium
    • Large
GCF25.0mGrantCo-Financing7.7mIn-kindGCF financing 76.4%Co-financing 23.6%

GCF financing

InstrumentAmount
GrantUSD 25,000,000
Total GCF Financing
USD 25,000,000

Co-financing

Co-financerInstrumentAmount
Co-FinancingIn-kindUSD 7,729,680
Total Co-Financing
USD 7,729,680

GCF Contacts

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Entity

Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza A.C.
Dr. Renee Montagut
Primary

General Director
Ms. Graciela Reyes Retana
Secondary

Investigation and Development Director
Ms. Melissa Rando
Tertiary

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

Mexico
Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Unit of Public Credit and International Affairs
Ms. Regina Rosales Talamas Primary
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
Phone (+52) 55 3688 1704
regina_rosales@hacienda.gob.mx
Ms. H. Gabriela Niño Gómez Secondary
Director of Sustainable Financing
Av. Insurgentes Sur 1971, Plaza Inn, Torre III, Piso 3, Col. Guadalupe Inn, Alcaldía Álvaro Obregón, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Phone +52 55 3688 1854
herandy_nino@hacienda.gob.mx
Ms. A. Astrid Morales Rivera Tertiary
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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17 Mar 2025 / Seven new project agreements were signed during the Green Climate Fund’s 41st Board meeting (B.41), which took place on 17-20 February 2025. At the Fund’s first Board meeting of the year, the Board approved USD 686.8 million (USD 1.5 billion with co-financing) in GCF investment for 11 new projects in 42 countries. This brings the GCF portfolio to 297 projects in 133 countries, with a total GCF funding amount of USD 16.6 billion and USD 62.7 billion with co-financing.