Thursday, 28 February 2013 04:00

Presentations of the Second EUROCLIMA Seminar

27 February, 2013. Bogotá, Colombia.

Presentations and related documents:

Memoir 2nd EUROCLIMA Seminar

Seminar's Agenda

Ms. Catherine Ghyoot, EUROCLIMA Programme Manager, Regional Programmes Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DG Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, European Commission. Keynote speech (only in Spanish).

Presentations Second EUROCLIMA Seminar - Monday 25 February 2013:

Science and Policy jointly fighting Climate Change 

Ms. Catherine Ghyoot, EUROCLIMA Programme Manager, Regional Programmes Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DG Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, European Commission. EUROCLIMA: Context and vision (only in Spanish)

Mr. Jan Karremans, Technical Assistance Director. EUROCLIMA: Structured dialogue, capacity building and knowledge exchange (only in Spanish).

Ms. Cynthia Córdoba, EUROCLIMA Focal Point Costa Rica: Relevance of EUROCLIMA to Latin America (only in Spanish).

Socio-economic aspects of the fight against climate change 

Mr. Luís Miguel Galindo, Head of the Climate Change Unit, Division for Sustainable Development and Human Settlements, ECLAC: Climate change and Sustainable Development in Latin America: ECLAC in the context of EUROCLIMA (only in Spanish).

Ms. Claudia Bouroncle, Consultant, Peru: Best practices for adaptation in rural Latin America.

Mr. Carlos Brenes, Consultant, Costa Rica: Tools and indicators for monitoring climate change adaptation.

Biophysical aspects of the fight agains climate change

Mr. Humberto Barbosa, Researcher-Professor, Federal University of Alagoas, Laboratory for the Analysis and Processing of Satellite Images (UFAL-LAPIS), Brazil: Relevance of EUROCLIMA for Latin America (only in Spanish).

Mr. Ronald Ontiveros, Consultant, Bolivia: Effects of climate change on land degradation.

Mr. Rubén Vargas, Consultant, Colombia: Climate change and risks: the vulnerability of coastal marine infrastructures (only in Spanish).

Synergies: EUROCLIMA and other regional initiatives

Mr. José Ramón Picatoste and Ms. Ana Pintó Fernández, Iberoamerican Network of Climate Change offices – Soanish Office of Climate Change (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment): Iberoamerican Network of Climate Change Offices (RIOCC) (only in Spanish).

Mr. Jason Spensley, Head of the Climate Change programme and manager of the REGATTA project, UNEP - Regional Office for LAC: Regional Gateway for Technology Transfer and Climate Change Action in Latin America and the Caribbean (only in Spanish)

Mr. Etienne Coyette, Thematic Officer - Climate Change Adaptation focal point, Climate Change, Environment, Natural Resources, Water Unit, DG Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, European Commission: Other EU regional initiatives on climate change in Latin America (only in Spanish).

Presentations Second EUROCLIMA Seminar - Tuesday 26 February 2013:

EU Cooperation with Latin America: climate change, political dialogue, institutional strengthening

Mr. Stefan Agne, Policy Officer - International climate finance, Climate Finance and Deforestation Unit. DG Climate Action, European Commission. EU approaches to climate change: international negotiations and the implementation of climate policies (only in Spanish).

Mr. José González y González, Team Leader, Regional Programmes Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DG Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, European Commission: EU development cooperation and climate change (only in Spanish).

Ms. Catherine Ghyoot, EUROCLIMA Programme Manager, Regional Programmes Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DG Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, European Commission: Perspectives of EUROCLIMA (only in Spanish).

Mr. Omar Rivero, EUROCLIMA Focal Point Cuba: Relevance of EUROCLIMA for Cuba and perspectives for the 2nd phase (only in Spanish).

Sustinable Agriculture and climate change 

Mr. David Williams, Manager of IICA's Agriculture, Natural Resources Management and Climate Change Program: Agriculture and climate change: IICA's initiative in the 2nd EUROCLIMA phase (only in Spanish).

"No-regret measures" for adaptation and mitigation

Ms. Laura Granado-Martin, Programme Assistant - External Relations, Regional Programmes Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DG Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, European Commission: Energy efficiency and renewable energies in the context of climate change in Latin America (only in Spanish).

Presentation of the Second EUROCLIMA Seminar - Wednesday 27 February 2013:

Ms. Carmen Arguello, Director of the Climate Finance Managment Office, Ministry of Environment - El Salvador: Building the regional process of climate finance (only in Spanish).

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