Euroclima
Primer Taller de Coordinación de EUROCLIMA
El Primer Taller se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile, del 15 al 16 de septiembre, 2011.
Gender in the Green Climate Fund
Operationalizing a Gender: Sensitive Approach in the Green Climate Fund. Download.
Nicaragua Climate Change
El cambio climático es producto de un modelo dispuesto a acabar con la vida en la tierra, el del derroche, afirmó hoy el viceministro del Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de Nicaragua, Roberto Araquistain.
New version of Cristal launched
IISD, in partnership with IUCN, SEI, and HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, has released a new version of CRiSTAL. It´s also available in spanish.
Observatory Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought
The first complete version in Spanish, Portuguese and English of the Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought Observatory is online which includes a version in development of the Map Viewer.
Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought Observatory
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.
The Durban Summit: Consequences for Latin America
EUROCLIMA's Partner Countries Reflectios on Durban.
RALCEA completes selection of knowledge centres to make up the network
Latin America is home to a large number of institutions with a high level of technical and scientific knowledge and considerable experience in the water sector.
Editorial Newsletter #2
The aim of EUROCLIMA is to help improve the knowledge of Latin American decision-makers and scientists regarding the impact of climate change in the region, and therefore facilitate integration of the issue within sustainable development strategies.
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.
Redrawing the energy-climate map
This report was prepared by the Directorate of Global Energy Economics (GEE) of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Download.
Paradoxes and challenges
The current global development style is not sustainable considering its simultaneous impact on economic, social and environmental conditions, as reflected fully in the climate change challenge.
Climate change, which is being brought about essentially by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, is already discernible in such phenomena as a rise in average global temperatures, alterations in precipitation patterns, rising sea levels, the shrinking cryosphere and changes in the pattern of extreme weather events (IPCC, 2013).
There is evidence that the mean global temperature rose by 0.85°C over the period from 1880 to 2012 and, in the most probable scenarios, the average is projected to climb by between 1°C and 3.7°C during this century, with the increase amounting to between 1°C and 2°C by 2050. Some extreme regional scenarios predict even higher temperature rises. To date insufficient progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to stabilize climate conditions, and the effects of climate change that are expected to arise during this century therefore appear to be increasingly unavoidable. The only possible solution to climate change entails a global agreement in which all countries take part.
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.