Bogotá, Colombia, 22 February, 2013. "Results and Prospects in face of climate change EUROCLIMA 2010-2016" is the title of the event that brought together more than 70 Latin American and European experts from 25 - 27 February 2013 in the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
This meeting was held in the framework of the Second Regional Seminar EUROCLIMA program, funded by the European Union, an initiative that seeks to improve the knowledge of the decision makers and the scientific community in Latin America on climate change, so as to integrate this issue in sustainable development strategies. The event was organized in close coordination with the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia.
During this seminar, the speakers gave lectures on the results achieved in the scientific and socio-economics topics of climate change, the European Union development cooperation, international negotiations, among others. In addition, the results of the studies on monitoring and adaptation to climate change, soil degradation and the vulnerability of coastal marine infrastructure were presented. Moreover, representatives of governmental and academic analyzed and defined the activities to be implemented in the expansion phase of the EUROCLIMA programme.
"We want to analyze the progress and the lessons learned we have harvested during these three years of EUROCLIMA and prioritize actions for the 2016, considering the risk and vulnerability to climate change and its effects on sustainable development in the region," said Catherine Ghyoot, responsible of the EUROCLIMA Programme, EuropeAid, European Commission.
Ghyoot added that this Seminar is an event addressed to the programme's beneficiaries, but given the importance of the issue, on Monday 25 all sessions were broadcasted live to the general public from 9:00 am through www.euroclima.org/seminariocolombia.
For this seminar representatives from all beneficiary countries in Latin America were invited. Delegates from the European Commission, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), the Iberoamerican Newtork of Climate Change Offices (RIOCC) and the Regional Gateway for Technology Transfer and Climate Change Action in Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Finally, as a side event, an evaluation meeting on the results of the Regional Dialogue on Effective Finance for Climate, which took place in Honduras in 2012, was held, in order to provide guidelines for the Second Dialogue to be undertaken in El Salvador in the mid of this year.
Relevant documents:
Memoir Second Regional EUROCLIMA Seminar febr2013-Bogota