The EUROCLIMA Technical Assistance will coordinate a virtual course on “Climate Change Finance: Instruments and Mechanisms for development”, during the months of February and March 2013, as part of its actions to strengthen capacity building and exchange of knowledge and experiences between Focal Points of the Programme and with their technical staff.

To realize this course, the “Regional Programmes Unit Latin American and the Caribbean” of EuroepeAid, in coordination with the programme´s Technical Assistance, has established collaboration with RedCLARA “Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks” - www.redclara.net, to implemented this course and other virtual courses using their e-learning platform.

The course will provide live virtual conferences, material will be made available to participants; and case studies on financing will be discussed.

The metodology of the virtual course will allow the Focal Points of the EUROCLIMA programme to present proposals and work completed in their countries, both at the national, subnational and local levels. It will also serve to identify common and diverse actions in Latin American and other regions of the world in climate change finance.

The joint construction will be key to help strengthen intraregional cooperation ties and put on the agenda the issues most relevant to political and legal frameworks regarding the mechanisms and instruments for financing.