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Progress and plans of the EUROCLIMA components
The EUROCLIMA programme, through EuropeAid's Regional Programmes Unit, Latin America and Caribbean, in coordination with the Technical Assistance has brought together the Focal Points and their representatives from the entire region in two occasions in 2011.
EUROCLIMA: Objectives and progress through 2010 - 2011
During two side-events of COP17, the EUROCLIMA programme presented its objectives and its progress during 2010-2011. After an overview of the programme by the Regional Programmes Unit Latin America and the Caribbean - EuropeAid, the Technical Assistance presented the latest e-Newsletter dedicated to the theme of Water and Climate Change in Latin America.
Editorial Newsletter #3
The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, has led to the creation of a road map for the renewal of the Kyoto Protocol with a binding legal framework, the definition of the structure of the Green Climate Fund and a commitment not to increase the average temperature of the Earth by more than two degrees centigrade.
Looking ahead to RIO+20
The Executive Secretary of the UNCCD, MR. Luc Gnacadja, calls on world leaders to promote effective land use methods to mitigate drought and combat land degradation. Land is generating life-supplying biological productivity and its really productive area is a very limited part of it.
Assessing Trends in Land Degradation
Latin America is mostly associated with tropical and sub-tropical climates but about a quarter of its surface actually belongs to the drylands, having hyper-arid, arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid climates.
Monitoring Drought in Latin America
The first challenge towards an effective drought monitoring system in Latin America is to build awareness of drought as a recurrent phenomenon.
Soil Bureau Network
The Latin America and Caribbean Soil Bureau Network has been formally established during the meeting held in Rio in July 2010.
Editorial Newsletter #4
Drought could parch close to 70 percent of the planet's soil by 2025 unless countries implement policies to slow desertification, according to United Nations' estimates. Rather than a discouragement, this should be a call to governments, private sector, international donors and society in general, for coordinated action.
Strengthening knowledge and socio-economic capacities for climate change
Within the context of the EUROCLIMA programme, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) undertakes actions intended to improve knowledge and facilitate the exchange of socioeconomic information about climate change in Latin America.
Inventories of Greenhouse Gases
Estimating emissions and captures of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is an important element in achieving progress in fulfilment of the objective of successfully stabilising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a level which could prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.
Impacts of Climate Change on Income Distribution and Poverty
There now exists a consensus as to the relationship between concentrations of greenhouse gases and climate change, although we still lack knowledge about the channels of transmission and the magnitude of these effects on the well-being of households.
RIO+20: Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
During the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Río+20, Colombia with the support of Guatemala succeeded in passing a proposal on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which presents the design, consensus and implementation of indicators to measure the sustainability of social, environmental and economic development.
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Editorial Newsletter #5
In Latin America, conditions of geography, climate and vulnerability to natural, social and economic events make the region highly fragile with regard to the economic impacts of climate change.
Seminar - Workshop: Challenges of Fiscal Policy, Social and Environmental
This seminar-workshop was held in the framework of the Socio-economic component of EUROCLIMA, implemented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations – ECLAC, from 19 to 21 November 2012 in Santiago de Chile.
Virtual Course “Climate Change Finance”
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.
2nd EUROCLIMA Workshop: Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought
The 2nd Regional EUROCLIMA Workshop (DLDD, http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/scado) took place between the 22nd and 25th of October 2012.