Side events for EUROCLIMA+ at the 2019 Climate Week for Latin American and the Caribbean, held in Salvador, Brazil

Salvador, Brazil August 16, 2019. In order to present the progress achieved to date in EUROCLIMA+, a programme funded by the European Union, the Programme will be present during the 2019 Climate Week for Latin American and the Caribbean, which will take place in Salvador, Brazil August 19 to 23, 2019.

The side event that EUROCLIMA+ is organising during this great event in Brazil will take place on Thursday, August 22 at 12.30 in the Goal 7 room of Salvador Hall.

During this EUROCLIMA+ side event, the main actions that the programme has been promoting will be shown, among which the following stand out:

• 41 projects in full implementation in the areas of urban mobility; disaster risk management; forests, biodiversity and ecosystems; and resilient food production.
• New projects that will start in the second half of 2019 in the areas of energy efficiency and water in an urban context.
• Actions to support climate governance in the areas of climate finance, climate legislation, climate policies, capacity building, gender and education.
• National Dialogues to strengthen climate policies and the implementation of NDCs in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, Paraguay.
• Regional actions to support initiatives of common interest for some or all of the countries in the region, linked to the achievement of national climate policies.

In addition, this EUROCLIMA+ session will also present concrete cases that are being promoted in a project in Brazil, in the national dialogue with Ecuador, and on a regional initiative that covers the 18 partner countries of this Programme.

According to Stéphanie Horel, Programme Manager EUROCLIMA+, European Union "...with these types of events what we are aiming for is to promote projects and actions to support policies for achieving greater climate ambition in Latin American countries, since for us from the European Union this is a key issue in EUROCLIMA+".

EUROCLIMA+ initiatives will be presented by Mariana Gianiki, from the National Association of Municipal Environmental Agencies ANAMMA (Brazil); Vicente Fabián Moncayo Pérez, National Director of Climate Change Mitigation in Ecuador, and Hernán Blanco from the Avina Foundation, Chile.

Participating from the European Commission will be Jorge Pinto Antunes, from the Directorate General for Climate, and Stéphanie Horel, from the Directorate General for Cooperation and Development, both representing the European Union.

After the presentations, there will be a space for exchange and debate among the participants.

Launch of the study:

Within the framework of this side event, the study “Progress in Climate Action for Latin America: Nationally Determined Contributions as of 2019” will be launched.

This study presents a panoramic view of the state of the art of the implementation of nationally determined contributions (NDC) in Latin American countries, identifying strengths, challenges and unmet needs, as well as success stories that can be replicated in other countries.

Those who access this document will be able to know in detail the policies and strategies advanced by each of the 18 Latin American countries studied, in the definition and planning of their national actions to contribute to the reduction of the factors that cause climate change.

This study is part of the actions of the initiative 'Dialogue among peers to strengthen the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) in Latin America' of the EUROCLIMA+ programme; developed through a strategic alliance between the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with support from the AVINA Foundation under the Climate Governance component of the EUROCLIMA+ programme.

Link to the EUROCLIMA participation AGENDA

About 2019 Climate Week for Latin America and the Caribbean

The agenda for Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week is already published, and it contains a programme of activities that will showcase the region’s growing climate ambition through a series of technical discussions and thematic dialogues.

To boost ambition and accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the  2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the outcomes of this climate week will be incorporated into the results of the Climate Action Summit organised by UN Secretary General on September 23 in New York.

To register for the 2019 Climate Week for Latin America and the Caribbean, click here. 

About EUROCLIMA+, flagship programme of the European Union in Latin America focused on the topic of climate change,

EUROCLIMA+ is a programme funded by the European Union to promote environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient development in 18 Latin American countries, particularly for the benefit of the most vulnerable populations. The Programme is implemented under the synergistic work of seven agencies: Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), French Development Agency (AFD), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Expertise France (EF), International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP), German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), and UN Environment.

Press contacts

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