The Instituto Internacional de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo – IIED América Latina, is working with the community of Barrio 20 and city government to integrate climate action within an ongoing urban upgrading process. Since 2016, the Housing Institute of Buenos Aires (IVC) and its residents have been leading the participatory upgrading of Barrio 20, an informal settlement within the city of Buenos Aires.
Since 2021, with the Transformative Urban Coalitions (TUC), IIED América Latina established an urban lab in Barrio 20 to discuss how to integrate climate action in a just and equitable way, and design and implement a series of pilot interventions that could raise awareness and build resilience. These interventions focus on nature-based solutions, citizen science to establish a weather monitoring system and awareness-raising activities like climate action murals strategically placed within the neighbourhood.
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