ABSTRACT

This chapter tracks the trajectory of Colombia’s National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change, and interrogates the way that this document centers on ecological and socioeconomic aspects of climate change from local to global levels. It reveals sources and structures of knowledges that informed its creation, from the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention to local adaptation experiences, uncovering both internal contradictions and flaws and the discursive spaces that these tensions open up for local adaptation.