The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development, Institute of Marine and Coastal Research (INVEMAR), Association of Regional Autonomous Corporations and Sustainable Development (ASOCARS), the National System for Disaster Prevention and Attention and the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Ideas); signed in the year 2009 an agreement to strengthen institutional capacities for the implementation of local practices Integrated Risk Management (GIR), as a measure of adaptation to climate change in coastal and insular area of ​​the Colombian Caribbean.

With the above, UNDP highlights the need to strengthen the Caribbean region in the prevention, to natural hazards and develop strategies for GIR with a long-term regional.

According to the UNDP advisor, Andrés Franco, This project stems from work identifying needs, developed by the United Nations, UNETE, the Department of Risk Management (DGR) and the governments of the 8 departments caribbean.

As part of this alliance, actions that will get are ahead 8 Departmental Risk Management Plans, 8 municipal experience pilots and GIR incorporating climate change into planning instruments, 5 experience pilots climate change adaptation, regionalized maps caribbean on vulnerability to climate change, Caribbean regional strategy communication and public information GIR, expanding the capacity of monitoring relative rise of sea level and consolidate work with academia, social networking and corporate social responsibility projects.

Corpoguajira, has been strongly supporting the development and progress of the agreement, contributing information and advice necessary for the department of La Guajira is beneficial owner of the process developed by the United Nations.

"We are committed to continue working aggressively to counteract the effects resulting from ecological risks in our jurisdiction, and continue to support the process of Integrated Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Corporation presenting as a practical and effective in relation to this issue in the Colombian Caribbean ", Romero Perez said Arcesius, General Manager Corpoguajira.

Meanwhile, Eliumat Maza Samper, Institutional delegate the issue GIR and Climate Change and Regional Coordinator Node Colombian Caribbean Climate Change, stated that "the department of La Guajira such aid is necessary and appropriate. With agency support have achieved great accomplishments for the peninsula, for example, Manaure municipality municipal beneficiary will be piloted in adaptation to climate change in their planning process, also will choose a specific territory of the upper and middle Guajira to develop as soon as possible pilot experience of adaptation to climate change, with measures that go directly to the benefit of affected communities”

All these actions will be the commitment of municipalities, complying in this way the development of the Millennium Development Goals, thereby streamlines departmental agenda from the CAR to develop effective strategies and impact against the effects of climate change.