Euroclima

Euroclima

Al iniciarse la segunda semana de negociaciones de la 20º Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP20), las discusiones sobre los compromisos necesarios para mitigar los efectos del cambio climático antes de 2020 siguen estando ausentes.

Presentations from the Cop20 Side Event: EUROCLIMA: joint Latin America - European Union regional responses to climate change challenges

El Parlamento Europeo aprobó una resolución de cara a la Conferencia Anual de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP20) que se celebrará en Lima del 1 al 12 de diciembre.

The region of Latin America and the Caribbean is already a global low-carbon leader in terms of power generation from hydrological and biomass resources, and it recently has made great strides in developing its other renewable energy sources. Declining costs, maturing technologies, and vast untapped potentials for renewables offer an unprecedented opportunity for further development of the renewable energy market in the region. Continuing to invest in renewables will provide Latin America and the Caribbean with the opportunity to address key economic, social, and environmental challenges in the energy sector.

 

The UN Climate Change Conference in Peru ( 1- 12 December) kicked off on Monday with inspiring calls to climate action.

In her opening address, the UN’s top climate change official Christiana Figueres called on delegates to take inspiration from Peru’s famous Nazca lines etched into the soil by Peru’s indigenous Nazca people many centuries ago. These lines depict symbols of Nazca mythology, and include the monkey, the hummingbird and the condor.

Tuesday, 02 December 2014 23:36

Global Climate Risk Index 2014

The Global Climate Risk Index 2014 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent data available—from 2012 and 1993–2012—were taken into account. The countries affected most in 2012 were Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan. For the period from 1993 to 2012 Honduras, Myanmar and Haiti rank highest.

Wednesday, 03 December 2014 02:25

"Crucial" climate summit begins in Peru

The climate change summit that began here Monday will be "historic for Peru and crucial for the world," Peruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal said.

Los países latinoamericanos llegan a la COP20 con la necesidad de conseguir apoyos para pensar cambios profundos en la lucha contra el calentamiento global.

La Unión Europea (UE) ha insistido hoy en Lima (Perú) en que la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP20) debe "allanar el camino" para que el próximo año se pueda adoptar en París un nuevo acuerdo mundial en la lucha contra el cambio climático.

Con gran expectativa se inauguró esta mañana la COP20 en Lima, la reunión más importante del mundo para hablar sobre propuestas relacionadas a mitigar el cambio climático que viene afectando al planeta.

Del 17 al 18 de noviembre, se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de Mendoza, Argentina, el III Diálogo de Finanzas y Cambio Climático de América Latina y el Caribe.

Durante el XX Congreso Latinoamericano de la Ciencia del Suelo, que se llevó a cabo en la Ciudad Imperial del Cusco, Perú. Se presentó el Atlas de Suelos de América Latina desarrollado por el Joint Research Centre a través del Programa EUROCLIMA.

Building on long-standing relations, solid historical, cultural and economic ties, Regional EU development cooperation with Latin America is based on bi-regional dialogue in particular through bi-annual Summits of Heads of State and Governments and subsequent political Declarations. Download

Over recent years, significant progress has been made in Latin America region where many countries reached a middle income status, despite the fact that severe in- equalities remain, very often linked to significant levels of poverty. The EU is committed to cooperating with La- tin American countries to contribute to tackling the challenges related to eventually eradicating poverty and fighting against social inequalities. This is at the heart of the EU development policy.

Latin America is highly prone to natural disasters and vulnerable to climate change. One of the greatest challenges faced by the region is the sustainable management of its rich and economically important natural resources. While most Latin American development is based upon the region’s natural resources, the effects of climate change are increasing visible, with substantial and in many cases irreversible effects on economic activities, populations and ecosystems. Vulnerable segments of the population will be hit earliest and hardest. Environmental degradation is evident and has a direct impact on the region’s sustainable development, and consequences for socio-economic development and the populations’ wellbeing.

Latin American governments are already active and willing to address the effects of climate change; be it at mitigation or at adaptation. The support provided by

the EU on climate change issues is widely acknowledged, leading to the substantial sharing of both experience and technical expertise.

Since 1994, the EU has contributed with more than EUR 1 billion for regional (continental) cooperation to Latin America in a number of programmes of cooperation.

Since 2008, environment, climate change and sustainable development have risen higher in the bi-regional agenda following the Summit of Heads of State and Governments held in Lima, Peru. Available funds for cooperation on these key themes increased substantially throughout the years since the launch of the EU EURO- CLIMA programme, in 2010, which aims at facilitating the integration of climate change strategies into public policies and their implementation, in Latin America.

The 2014-2020 Multiannual Indicative Regional (continental) Programme for Latin America aims, amongst other things, to foster environmentally sustainable development and to improve countries’ capacity to cope with climate change and natural disasters. At a crucial moment in the international agenda, when significant summits addressing climate change are taking place, the EU confirms, once again, its will to continue and foster the cooperation with Latin America on these issues.

This publication illustrates some of the results and out- comes of the EU Regional programmes for Latin America in the fields of climate change, renewable energies and water. 

Jolita Butkeviciene

Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid 

Experiences of the European Union with Latin America, Regional Development Cooperation on climate change, renewable energies and water. Download

El pasado 30 de septiembre y 1 de octubre se llevó a cabo el XI Encuentro Anual de la RIOCC en la ciudad de Lima, Perú. Expertos de EUROCLIMA realizaron una presentación sobre sinergías y múltiples beneficios en la política climática: experiencias de América Latina y Europa.

El cambio climático es inequívoco y mayor la certidumbre sobre la influencia humana; sólo con recortes de emisiones estrictos se pueden evitar daños irreversibles y limitar su impacto a un "nivel razonable".

Enfermedades infecciosas como la malaria, el chikunguña e incluso el ébola y su rápida propagación en los últimos años son un ejemplo más de cómo el cambio climático amenaza a la seguridad sanitaria mundial advirtió hoy a EFEverde el director ejecutivo de Consejo de Administración del Programa de la ONU para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), Achim Steiner.

Especialistas en medio ambiente, cambio climático, recursos naturales, contaminación, desechos, comunicación social y periodistas de todo el país, se congregarán este sábado para participar en el seminario “Periodismo, medio ambiente y cambio climático”.

Cartagena Competitiva y Compatible con el Clima, el Plan de Adaptación al Cambio Climático, 4C, fue socializado en el marco de la clausura de la semana ambiental, liderada por la alianza ANDI - Fundación Mamonal.

La influencia humana en el sistema climático es clara y va en aumento, y sus impactos se observan en todos los continentes. Si no se le pone freno, el cambio climático hará que aumente la probabilidad de impactos graves, generalizados e irreversibles en las personas y los ecosistemas. Sin embargo, existen opciones para la adaptación al cambio climático, y con actividades de mitigación rigurosas se puede conseguir que los impactos del cambio climático permanezcan en un nivel controlable, creando un futuro más claro y sostenible.

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