The Deputy Minister for Development Cooperation and the Minister's Office in charge, Jaime Miranda, closed this afternoon the II Regional Dialogue on Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

"We have a clear mandate to encourage governmental institutions to seek intersectoral solutions that allow urgent adaptation to this environmental phenomenon (climate change)“ said the Deputy Minister for Development Cooperation. 

Representatives from the Ministries of Finances, Environment, Planning and Foreign affairs will attend this event. The event is financed by Development Cooperation partners such as UNDP, UNEP through REGATTA, the European Commission through its EUROCLIMA programme, the Inter-American Development (IADB), the Latin American Development Bank (CAF), among others. For the European Commission, Mr. Stefan Agne from the Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) will present the EU experience in taking advantage of the private sector for climate change financing. The Director of EUROCLIMA's Technical Assistance, Mr. Jan Karremans, participates in the Organisation Committee of this event.

The first complete version in Spanish, Portuguese and English of the Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought Observatory is now online which includes a version of of the Map Viewer still in development.