This document published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlines proposals for upcoming activities under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change from countries including Colombia, El Salvador and Pakistan. It is part of the provisional agenda for Durban, 28th November to 3rd December 2011.

This policy brief emerges from a process of analysis of the status and quality of the public policies on climate change and development in ten Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia, El Salvador and Paraguay. It suggests that policies generated should have quality in the design, be implemented effectively, and guarantee institutional strengthening, greater awareness through social communication, and political and social support, for achieving its goals.