Development of regulations for climate change management in Ecuador

The Organic Environmental Code on Climate Change (COA) regulates environmental rights, duties, guarantees and principles, natural heritage areas, environmental quality, climate change, coastal and marine areas, environmental incentives and the sanctioning regime. Toward this end, Ecuador requires the development of secondary legislation and regulations for the provisions contained in Book IV of its COA on Climate Change, so that they provide the enabling instruments for the implementation of NDCs and the strengthening of existing capacities of staff in the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador to apply these new legal instruments.

For this, the regulations of Book IV of the COA will be revised, updated and developed, in accordance with solid technical and legal foundations that allow for the appropriate management of climate change to be developed.

With the objective of having a participatory, inclusive, legitimate norm that reflects the needs and opinions of citizens, this process will include workshops in which civil society can participate and actively engage, as well as other spaces for exchange with representatives of government agencies, and national and regional climate change experts.

Subsequently, the country must have guidelines for the formulation, monitoring, evaluation and updating of Ecuador's climate change management instruments contained in the Organic Environmental Code (Nationally Determined Contributions, National Climate Change Strategy, National Adaptation Plan, National Mitigation Plan).

Expected results

Legal framework

Have an up-to-date and technically sound legal framework that allows MAE and other competent public entities (such as decentralised autonomous governments) to implement activities for climate change management in Ecuador.

Training

Ensure that MAE staff have strengthened technical and professional capacities for the implementation of climate change regulations.

Participation

Have a participatory, inclusive, legitimate norm that reflects the needs and opinions of citizens and government agencies, and national and regional climate change experts.

Cronología

Chronology

Analysis of the provisions contained in Book IV of its COA on Climate Change

Workshops for civil society, government agencies and experts

Updating and development of the regulations in Book IV of the COA, which incorporates the observations made in the workshops as well as those of Ecuador’s Ministry of the Environment.

Training for officials

Construction of guidelines for the formulation, monitoring, evaluation and updating of climate change management instruments.