UN Volunteers empower communities to promote the green agenda in Latin America
Climate change is a global challenge. However, when combined with other variables such as age, gender, ethnicity or social class, its impacts are greater. With volunteerism, we can empower affected people to build resilient communities on the road to the year 2030.
According to the State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2020 Report, more than 312,000 people lost their lives and 277 million were affected by climate-related events between 1998 and 2020; the severe droughts in the southern Amazon were the worst in 50 years, while in Central America, a record of 30 storms a year was recorded with 8 million people affected.