Understanding and Addressing Climate Risks in the Caquetá River Valley

The Caquetá River Valley hosts important indigenous groups, and supports unique biodiversity and key ecosystems which are at risk from current and future climate change. The Nature Conservancy is dedicated to addressing some of the most fragile parts of the region with targeted efforts at science, adaptation, and conservation. Jupiter Intelligence is providing its estimates of future floods under climate change based on CMIP6 data as input for a Water Security Index to support the decisions made at the basin and local community levels. Allowing the climate services information to be useful to indigenous groups, ecosystem management and climate change adaptation on such a large scale requires new sets of approaches with a focus on critical regions at the basin level. Active communication by all participants will be key for the climate information to be understandable, appropriate and actionable. This presentation will highlight some of the products related to floods used to identify the most at-risk areas and will discuss how spatial resolution, climate scenarios and different metrics for summarizing climate change can be used in joint decision making.