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Challenges for a Climate Compatible Development: How to strengthen agricultural, livestock and forestry public policies (2013)

 

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. It observes that combing integrated climate policies to sectoral and macroeconomic policies from each country is necessary. This will help to prioritize the climate agenda and include a comprehensive global and regional approach. It also emphasizes the importance of working collaboratively between public and private institutions with a multilevel approach. These recommendations look to promote the legitimacy, sustainability and real impact of policies.

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April 12, 2013 | More on Agriculture, Civil Society, Food Security, Public Climate Change Policies, Publications, REDD+ | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, CDKN, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay | Comment

Report on the Status and Quality of Public Policies on Climate Change and Development in Latin America (2012)

 

This report analyses the present status of public policies on climate change and development in Latin America focusing on the agricultural, livestock and forestry sectors. As a result of a comparative analysis of 10 national reports conducted in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay; the Regional Report identifies and analyzes specific patterns and common characteristics from agendas and climate policies of the 10 countries related to their level of implementation, the institutional strength of organizations responsible for their implementation, integration with  development policies, public participation and political support. This is the English translation of the following report published originally in Spanish.

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April 11, 2013 | More on Agriculture, Food Security, Public Climate Change Policies, Publications, REDD+ | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, CDKN, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay | Comment

Introducing the GLOBE Climate Legislation Study 3rd Edition

 

January 14, 2013 | More on Public Climate Change Policies, video, youtube | Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru | Comment

Shaping the Durban Platform: Latin America and the Caribbean in a future High Ambition Deal

 

After the longest session on record, governments at the COP17 in Durban in December 2011 agreed to negotiate by 2015 a climate deal to enter into force in 2020. The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action defied predictions that the meeting in South Africa would lead to a collapse of the UN climate talks. Many parties from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have worked many years to make possible the political compromise achieved in the final hours and included in the Durban Platform. Today, the challenge is to make this platform ambitious enough to avoid dangerous climate change.

In this new CDKN and Energeia Policy Brief we discuss the outcomes of the COP17, the contribution Latin America and the Caribbean made and the implications of the Durban Platform for the region. The Brief finishes by offering a set of recommendations:

1. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries supporting high ambition at the international climate negotiations need to continue to shape a more ambitious climate narrative by acting together, domestically and internationally, and strengthening existing work with experts on bold action both within and outside the COPs.

2. Informal exchanges inside and outside of the UNFCCC process to jointly define key milestones for the Durban Platform and identify areas of convergence and divergence must take place within LAC countries and with Africa and Asia between now and 2015.

3. Both at home and abroad, the LAC region needs to improve how it communicates its successes on low carbon, climate resilient strategies to keep building confidence and generating a stronger impact at the international climate negotiations.

4. LAC countries need to continue to explore how best to advance national conversations linking climate change issues such as mitigation and resilience plans to national interests and potential losses in food security, infrastructure and trade.

To read the Policy Brief click here.

April 18, 2012 | More on International Climate Negotiations, Public Climate Change Policies | Brazil, Caribbean, Cartagena-Dialogue, COP17, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Perú, UNFCCC | Comment

Global Adaptation Index (GAIN Index) and El Salvador

 

April 9, 2012 | More on Adaptation, video, Vulnerability, youtube | El Salvador | Comment

In Conversation with Pippa Heylings, CDKN-LAC Regional Director

 

February 15, 2012 | More on Public Climate Change Policies, video, youtube | Caribbean, CDKN, Chile, El Salvador, Peru | Comment

El Salvador’s Environment Minister Herman Rosa Chavez at the COP17

 

December 8, 2011 | More on International Climate Negotiations, video, youtube | COP17, El Salvador | Comment

El Salvador stresses adaptation to keep its head above water

 

By Adam Kotin

When devastating floods hit El Salvador in October 2011, 40% of the country’s crops were wiped out. Agricultural Minister José Guillermo López Suárez was forced to import the nation’s signature kidney beans all the way from China.

But sadly, this wasn’t a new experience for the fast-developing Central American nation. At a COP17 panel presentation, El Salvadoran Minister of the Environment, Herman Rosa Chávez, discussed the slew of extreme weather events his country has endured over the last several years.

For El Salvador, severe climate-related losses have almost become an annual rite.

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December 8, 2011 | More on Adaptation, Climate Finance, International Climate Negotiations | COP17, El Salvador | Comment

Scoping Study of Climate Change Activities across Latin America and the Caribbean to inform the CDKN Regional Strategy (2010)

 

This study prepared by Guy Edwards attempts to identify the priority needs of Latin American and Caribbean policy-makers with respect to climate change and development planning and highlights key organizations, actors and programs that are operating in the climate change and development arena in the region.

 

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March 23, 2011 | More on Adaptation, Public Climate Change Policies, Reading List | Bolivia, Brazil, ECLAC, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, UNFCCC | Comment

Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean: The threat from climate change to the environment and human development (2006)

 

This publication is an important contribution to establish greater awareness about climate change. It is a call to action not just for the governments and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean but also for leaders in developed countries, the principal emitters responsible for the impacts and effects climate change is having on the nations of the region, their economies and the natural world we depend upon.

 

 

 

 

 

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November 14, 2009 | More on Biodiversity, Civil Society, Reading List | Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras | Comment