Every year Central America and the Dominican Republic face economic, social and environmental losses as a consequence of hurricanes, droughts and other extreme hydrometeorological phenomena. How can these losses be reduced? Can we transform threats into opportunities? Central America must learn from international best practices and its own experience related to climate change adaptation. Doing so might provide evidence to scale-up initiatives and optimize time, financial resources and effort that ultimately reduce losses and increase economic, social and environmental gains. What are the determining factors to achieve this transformation? Speakers in this session will discuss these topics as experts and relevant actors from countries across the region.