ABSTRACT
Cities in Latin America have experienced an increase in the number and intensity of climate events such as El Niño Southern Oscillation over the past 30 years, causing record precipitation events in Venezuela (1999 and 2005); flooding in the Argentinean Pampas (2000 and 2002); droughts in the Amazon basin (2005), Caribbean (2009-2010), Mexico (2011-2012) and Argentina (2011); and back-to-back record hurricane seasons in the South Atlantic (2004, 2005). The impacts of climate change do and will continue to vary across the region, as summarized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Magrin et al., 2007).
