The experience of the Gran Chaco continues to generate relevant lessons to strengthen the global agenda for adaptation to climate change.
In the framework of the webinar “Testing the Belém Adaptation Indicators: Emerging practices and implementation pathways”, organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the COP30 Presidency, María del Pilar Bueno Rubial, executive director of Argentina 1.5 and Fabiana Menna, president of Fundación Gran Chaco, presented the progress of the pilot of the Belém Adaptation Indicators applied to livestock production in the province of Chaco.
The presentation allowed sharing the main results of the report “Testing of the Belém Adaptation Indicators in the province of Chaco, Argentina”, prepared from an exercise aimed at analyzing the applicability of these indicators in a subnational context and identifying lessons learned for their implementation.
The Chaco case demonstrates how international adaptation frameworks can be translated into concrete tools for local climate action. The work developed around regenerative livestock models and silvopastoral systems links global indicators with production processes, environmental conditions, and local capacities, while also incorporating the participation of producers, public agencies, academia, and civil society organizations.
One of the main contributions of this experience is precisely its ability to connect the global scale with local realities. The pilot project made it possible to identify methodological opportunities and challenges for operationalizing the Belém Adaptation Indicators in a subnational context, while also incorporating dimensions related to gender, youth, and indigenous communities.
Bringing the experiences of the territories to international dialogue spaces is fundamental so that the global adaptation agenda can be built on evidence, local knowledge and concrete lessons learned.
From Argentina 1.5, we continue working to build those bridges: to contribute to ensuring that international discussions on climate change engage with local realities and, at the same time, that the experiences developed in the territories can feed and strengthen global climate action policies and frameworks.
