Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Puerto Rico's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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OE-2023-009: Declaring An Emergency as a Result of the Effects of Coastal Erosion on the Island and Implementing Prevention, Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resiliency Measures; and Other Related Matters

- The Action Committee for Adaptation and Resiliency In Response To Coastal Erosion (“Action Committee”) is established. 

- The DNER is ordered to evaluate and implement—in collaboration with the Infrastructure Financing Authority through an agreement and the allocation of the corresponding budgets—the following prevention, mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency measures to combat coastal erosion and its effects.

- The DNER is ordered to update its management plan for coastal zones in order to adapt it to the effects associated with climate change in Puerto Rico.

- The DNER is ordered to continue conducting mass reforestation in order to replace trees damaged by the atmospheric phenomena that have affected Puerto Rico in the past several years.

Solar Incentive Program

The Puerto Rico Department of Housing (PRDOH) has designed the Solar Incentive Program. The purpose of this Program is to incentivize eligible households to acquire a photovoltaic system with a storage battery or only a storage battery in the case of those applicants who already have a photovoltaic system in their homes, thus promoting the well-being of Puerto Rican citizens.

This program will promote energy resilience in households with an income between 0% and 200% of the Area Median Family Income (AMFI).

Total Trees Pledged: 3,919,508
This pledge will take place from: 2020 to 2030
Pledge by Para la Naturaleza

Puerto Rico 1 Trillion Trees Pledge

Para la Naturaleza is implementing ecosystem restoration strategies to help recover the forested ecosystems in natural protected areas and in over 30 affected communities throughout the islands. The project is designed to educate and engage people in massive reforestation efforts to foster the well-being of ecosystems and communities and it will focus in four main areas. The project design and its activities are in direct alignment with the global mass-scale nature restoration effort of the One Trillion Trees Initiative