Seminar was held in Mexico City and brought together about 50 officials of Europe and Latin America, who for two days discussed issues related to regional cooperation in environmental sustainability and climate change and its priorities by 2020.

During the closing ceremony on 7 October 2015, Neydi Cruz, Deputy Director General of International Cooperation of the Mexican Secretariat for Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), highlighted the aim of building a partnership between the Latin American countries to deal together with climate change issues.

She hoped that these discussions will turn into tangible results, making necessary to reiterate the urgent need for a binding international agreement during the next UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) that will be in Paris in December.

Later he invited the participants of the 5th EUROCLIMA seminar to attend the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity, to be held in 2016 in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

For his part, Jean-Paul Joulia, Head of Unit for Regional Programs in Latin America and Caribbean at the Directorate-General of International Development Cooperation of the European Commission considered that has built a track to achieving concrete impacts on the fight against climate change.

He emphasized that the efforts represented now by EUROCLIMA should continue, translating the work done so far in visible measures, emphasizing two aspects: political and technical. "The chances of achieving the goals are there, you just have to imprint faster, because the fight against climate change depends largely on the future of humanity", he said.

During the meeting, Rosibel Martinez, of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Honduras, stressed the importance of bringing together 18 Latin American countries in events like this, and to learn about the progress done towards the COP21 and to define the strategic lines of a new programme, inter alia, for energy efficiency and renewable energies in the specific case of Honduras.

In addition, Luis Marka, of the Ministry of Environment and Water of Bolivia, mentioned that in his country indigenous population are the most affected because of climate change. For this reason, these peoples are currently receiving support by the government, implementing infrastructure to facilitate access to drinking water.

"It seeks to create greater resilience of farmers, so they can be prepared for adverse events caused by climate change," said Marka. "Therefore, events such as this 5th Seminar of EUROCLIMA, become an ideal to share experiences on what other countries are doing and generate new or increased capabilities that enable developing proposals finally most successful on national stage."