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The bright yellow barrier, 78 meters long, stretches across the length of the Virilla River in the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) of Costa Rica. It’s early July, the height of the rainy season, but the last few days have been abnormally dry—one of the many emerging effects of climate change in the region. The river is calm and sits around four meters below its typical height, so Ana Yancy Arce, Manager of Sustainability and Communication for Corporation Pedregal, a construction and manufacturing company based in Heredia, Costa Rica, was able to lead the group participating in the UrbanShift City Academy on Integrated Climate Action Planning and Nature-Based Solutions in San José right up to its banks to explain the significance of the barrier across the river ...
