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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

Platform publishes new policy brief on how to strengthen public policies on agriculture, livestock and forests in Latin America

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The impacts of climate change in Latin America are increasingly alarming and greatly affect the agricultural, livestock and forestry sectors. This leads to a situation of economic, social, environmental and political vulnerability in the region; while putting at risk human and food security and the basic conditions necessary to reduce poverty.

April 11, 2013 | More on Key Posts, Public Climate Change Policies, REDD+ | Bolivia, CDKN, Colombia, Peru | Comment

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

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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

Peru and Venezuela compete to host COP20 in 2014

Guy Edwards

Next year a Latin American and the Caribbean country will host the annual UN climate change negotiations or ‘COP20’ of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Rumours are circulating that Peru and Venezuela are interested in hosting COP20. As the 2015 deadline to create a new global climate change treaty looms closer, Peru appears to be the stronger candidate.

February 13, 2013 | More on International Climate Negotiations, Key Posts | AILAC, Cartagena-Dialogue, COP15, COP16, COP17, COP18, COP20, Mexico, Peru, UNFCCC, Venezuela | Comment

The Politics of Climate Change in Latin America: Leaders and Laggards

Guy Edwards

Yesterday, I spoke at an Anglo-Ecuadorian Society event at the Casa Ecuatoriana in London on Latin America and climate change. Latin America is a key battleground and laboratory for confronting climate change and decisions taken in Latin American capitals and by their negotiators at the UN climate change talks could have major implications for the UN climate regime and the region’s development options this century. Here are a few extracts from the talk.

Introducing the GLOBE Climate Legislation Study 3rd Edition

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

A New Latin American Climate Negotiating Group: The Greenest Shoots in the Doha Desert

Timmons Roberts and Guy Edwards

Well-worn stories of dinosaurs like the United States and India battling it out in the United Nations climate change negotiations in Doha last week continue to crowd out other, more positive stories that need to be told. Rather than retelling the story of sticking points between the rich countries of the global North and those of the developing South, it’s crucial to see where something new is breaking through. The greenest shoots we saw at COP18 were from a group of developing countries scarcely mentioned in the media’s fascination with conflict and acrimony between the different Parties and blocs.

December 13, 2012 | More on International Climate Negotiations, Key Posts | AILAC, Chile, Colombia, COP18, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Peru | Comment

The Platform launches reports on climate change policies in 10 Latin American countries

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The Latin American Platform on Climate (known by its Spanish acronym PCL) has published a report on the state and quality of public policies on climate change and development in Latin America, particularly those focused on agriculture and forestry. This report is the product of an initiative by the PCL based on 10 national reports for countries in the region (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay). All the reports, both national and regional, are available here in Spanish. An English version of the regional report only can be downloaded here.

November 14, 2012 | More on Adaptation, Civil Society, Public Climate Change Policies | Bolivia, Colombia, Peru | Comment

High level Latin American officials and experts debate climate change policies at regional forum

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More than 40 high level officials and experts from various Latin American countries met in Lima this month to debate the importance of public policies on climate change in the region, with a particular focus on the agricultural and forestry sectors, using as its basis a report prepared by the Latin American Platform on Climate.

October 16, 2012 | More on Public Climate Change Policies | Bolivia, CDKN, Colombia, Peru | Comment

Call for expressions of interest: State of the art public policies workshop in Lima

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The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) aims to help decision-makers in developing countries design and deliver climate compatible development. CDKN does this by providing demand-led research and technical assistance, and channeling the best available knowledge on climate change and development to support policy processes at the country level.