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The Resilient Coasts – Caribbean Sea project, led by the Stockholm Environment Institute, uses 'living labs' in the Dominican Republic and Colombia to test nature-based solutions for coastal resilience. The project focuses on rehabilitating mangroves and coral reefs to reduce wave energy, prevent erosion, and support local economies through fishing and tourism, while developing sustainable financing models and community-led rehabilitation strategies.

The Varadero Living Lab, part of the Resilient Coasts – Caribbean Sea project, focuses on rehabilitating the coral reef near Cartagena, Colombia. The initiative employs technical demonstrations of nature-based solutions to protect against climate change impacts while empowering the local community through conservation-linked livelihoods. Expected outcomes include the use of emerging technologies for storm and erosion protection and the creation of a replicable blueprint for coral restoration and community adaptation.

The People's Summit declaration argues that the capitalist mode of production and transnational corporations are the root causes of the climate crisis and environmental racism. It rejects market-based 'false solutions' and the current multilateral system, calling instead for the recognition of ancestral knowledge, the protection of indigenous territories, and a sovereign, popular energy transition. The document demands the end of fossil fuel extraction, the redistribution of wealth from the global north to the south as socio-environmental debt, and the implementation of agroecology and feminist care work as central to planetary survival.

The briefing highlights a dangerous pattern of missing or inconsistent data on oil accidents across the Americas, noting that only Brazil, Canada, and the United States maintain regularly updated open datasets. Even in these countries, critical information such as ecological damage, human health impacts, and the responsible companies is often omitted. The document emphasizes that this lack of transparency violates international norms and obscures the systemic vulnerabilities of an interconnected petroleum supply chain, particularly in sensitive regions like the Amazon where ageing infrastructure poses significant risks.

The report highlights a systemic lack of transparent and consistent data on oil accidents across the 35 nations of the Americas. While Brazil, Canada, and the United States provide the most regular open data, significant gaps remain regarding the severity of impacts, fatalities, and responsible parties. The document emphasizes that this data scarcity obscures the true scale of environmental and social risks, particularly in sensitive regions like the Amazon, where aging infrastructure and operational failures continue to cause significant spills.

The document argues that offshore oil and gas production poses severe risks, including underreported greenhouse gas emissions from flaring and methane leaks, the high potential for devastating well blowouts—especially in deep waters—and chronic marine pollution from produced water. It highlights the failure of current cleanup technologies and the long-term socio-economic damage to coastal communities, concluding that halting offshore expansion is essential to meeting the 1.5°C global warming limit.

The village of Laborie, Saint Lucia, faces significant economic and social threats due to climate change, specifically through depleted fish catches, sea-level rise, and intense hurricanes. Fisherfolk have adapted by using fish aggregating devices (FADs) and traveling further offshore, though extreme weather continues to destroy equipment and infrastructure. While the Laborie Fishers’ & Consumers Co-operative provides critical distress funding, a lack of long-term insurance for small vessels remains a vulnerability. National efforts, such as the Fisheries Sectoral Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan (2018-2028), aim to enhance sustainability and support the transition toward a resilient blue economy.

The project aims to address the degradation of coastal marine ecosystems in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Old Providence, and Santa Catalina caused by unplanned mass tourism. It focuses on strengthening institutional capacities, generating reliable data on tourism impacts, and supporting small-scale local tourism businesses to adopt sustainable, biodiversity-friendly models. The intervention includes developing a Sustainable Tourism Plan, conducting carrying capacity assessments, and implementing monitoring programs for critical ecosystems and sensitive species.

The document highlights Jamaica's high vulnerability to climate change, particularly regarding its coastal tourism and fisheries, and describes the GIVRAPD project's efforts to enhance local adaptive capacity through participatory planning and institutional collaboration.

The Atlantic region contains approximately 10% of the world's coral reefs, with over 75% currently affected by local threats and more than 30% at high or very high risk. While 631 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) cover about 30% of these reefs, only 6% of the assessed area is classified as fully effective. Projections indicate that climate-related threats could push the proportion of reefs at risk to 100% by 2050.

The document details how offshore oil and gas activities—from exploration to decommissioning—damage marine ecosystems and coastal communities, highlighting specific risks like noise pollution, chemical contamination, and invasive species across various global hotspots.

The project aims to benefit 102,000 direct beneficiaries in Honduras' coastal and insular zones, focusing on indigenous and Afro-Honduran populations. It addresses vulnerabilities to sea level rise, increasing sea surface temperatures, and tropical storms. The proposal outlines three main components: improving livelihood resilience through new fishing technologies and climate-resilient aquaculture; creating a multi-level climate adaptation and disaster risk management mechanism; and strengthening natural barriers like mangroves while adapting housing infrastructure. With a total indicative cost of USD 17 million, the project seeks USD 12 million in GCF grants to shift the paradigm from centralized management to participatory, multi-actor integrated management.