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Today you will be researching information about strange weather that had occurred here in Colombia. You need to write TWO paragraphs describing that type of weather it was and what caused, what were the consequences after it happened.
You need to submit it here at the end of the class.
Each paragraph needs to have 7 sentences.
Check spelling, punctuation, and correct tenses. Remember to use the vocabulary related to weather.
This activity is graded.
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Colombia encompasses an area of more than 1.1 million square kilometers and is the only country in South America
with both a Caribbean and Pacific coastline. With an estimated population of 44.5 million, Colombia is the third most
populous country in Latin America.1
Even though Colombia is ranked 77th in the Human Development Index and has an
upper middle-income country status and annual GDP of 234 billion USD2
, it has one of the highest levels of inequality
in the world – 52.6 percent of the total population live below the poverty line and this figure reaches 69 percent in
rural areas.3
Colombia has one of the highest rates of internally displaced people (IDP) in the world due to civil
conflicts, leaving as many as 3.7 million especially vulnerable to climate change.
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The majority of the population resides in two areas: the elevated Andes, where
water shortages and land degradation already pose a threat, and the coastal and
insular areas, where the expected increase in sea level and floods will affect human
settlements and economic activities. In addition, the country presents a high
incidence of extreme weather and disasters associated with climate conditions and
variability.
Colombia is rich in natural resources and is estimated to hold 10-15 % of the world’s
biodiversity. Climate change impacts are expected to pose significant and long-term
effects on fragile and unique ecosystems and to accelerate the pace of land
degradation, impact water quality and agricultural production, contribute to the decline of biodiversity of species such
as high altitude flora and fauna and unique corals in the western Caribbean, and increase the exposure of citizens to
tropical vector diseases, such as malaria and dengue
Climate Risk and Adaptation Country Profile Colombia
Supporting the implementation of physical adaptation measures to reduce the vulnerability of Caribbean
insular areas, especially with regard to changes in rainfall and temperature, as well as sea level rise; and
Improving responses to the increased exposure to tropical vector-borne diseases (malaria and dengue),
induced by climate change.
Further efforts to improve the management of climate risks and better integrate them into national development
policies were articulated in the project Integrating Climate Change Risks and Opportunities into National Development
Processes and United Nations Country Programming.
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Implemented in 2009 and 2010, the project’s final evaluation
offered the following recommendations for adaptation:
Preserve and strengthen existing biological buffers through the conservation of critical eco-systemic
functions and environmental services;
Increase adaptive capacity and resilience in the organization of the State to catalyze its capacity to confront
extreme events and the uncertainty from processes of global climate change;
Improve balance between urbanization and rural living conditions;
Reinforce the “safe habitat and territory” concept in urbanization processes to reduce levels of human
exposure to extreme events, avoid large economic downturns, produce an effective fight against poverty,
and attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
Develop key institutional functions for adaptation to climate change by incorporating climate change
scenarios in all development planning processes