Protected areas have become an important component as enablers of national climate-change adaptation strategies. They increase ecosystems' adaptive potential, reducing climate risk and delivering numerous ecosystem services and sustainable development benefits while playing an important role in climate-change mitigation  . CSA already has a greater percentage of land  under protected status than the world average  . Some countries, including Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezuela, have already met or surpassed the 30% CDB and IUCN goal , and others, like Costa Rica and Honduras, are very close to doing so. In some cases, the establishment of protected areas not accompanied by collective decision-making processes has displaced local people or denied them access to natural resources, increasing their vulnerability to climate change .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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