NDCs: What is there for Latin America big cities?
Workshop
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This project is the result of the collaboration between the Regional Programme Energy Security and Climate Change in Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (EKLA-KAS) and the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS).
Der bedeutende Erfolg des Pariser Abkommens muss den national festgelegte Klimaschutzbeiträgen (nationally determined contributions, NDCs)
The landmark success of the Paris Agreement must be credited to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of countries responsible for more than 95% of global emissions. The NDCs were a major effort by National Governments projecting their expected increases of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the coming decades, and pledging reductions of such emissions in order to limit global temperature rise up to 2oC.
Different countries have proposed different strategies and approaches to reduce emissions. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the NDCs were determined by National Governments “only”. Some level of consultation existed in many, or most countries, but engagement of sub-national entities was essentially nil. This may be understood given the pressing time that the NDCs were constructed and also, more relevant, the fact that most decisions affecting future carbon emissions of a country are responsibility of national governments: the energy mix, the percentage of renewable, emission standards, fuel standards, phase out of technologies, and many others.
Many other decisions, however, are responsibility of sub-national and local-level governments – including transportation policies, city design, waste management, building efficiency codes, consumer behavior and practices, and many others. Cities, in particular, have a crucial contribution in helping countries to arrive at a climate agreement of a global scale. To begin with, half of the world’s population lives in cities, a share that reaches 80 percent in Latin America. Cities house most built assets, generate more than 80 percent of the world GDP, are responsible for some 70-80 percent of energy consumed, and generate three quarters of energy related GHG emissions. Such concentration of people, built assets and economic activity makes cities particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This same concentration makes it attractive and more cost-effective to focus both mitigation (and adaptation) action on cities.
The objective of this workshop series is to help both national governments as well as selected city governments in Latin America to strengthen a dialogue process to align the national NDC with existing city government plans and initiatives on climate change, which may have synergies with each other.
AGENDA
jueves, 6 de junio, 2019 - taller Día 1
ADAPTACIÓN – ¿Cómo armonizar los objetivos del NDC con los Planes climáticos de las ciudades y viceversa?
8:30 Registro
9:00 Bienvenida:
Marcelo Queiroz, Secretario Municipal de Medioambiente de Río de Janeiro
Nicole Stopfer, Directora EKLA-KAS
9:30 Resumen de las fases I y II del proyecto – principales lecciones y conclusiones:
Sérgio Margulis, IIS
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Presentación del análisis técnico:
Sérgio Margulis, IIS
11:45 Discusión del análisis técnico (Alentamos la participación activa de todos los expertos en el debate):
Moderadora: Karina Marzano (EKLA-KAS)
12:30 Almuerzo
14:00 Presentaciones I (15 minutos cada)
Paz Gonzalez, Fundación Avina, Argentina
Elena Palacios, Subgerente de Cambio Climático de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental del Gobierno de la Ciudad (APrA), Buenos Aires
Jane Guerrero, Subdirección de Análisis de Riesgos del Instituto Distrital de Gestión de Riesgos y Cambio Climático (IDIGER), Bogotá
Santiago Uribe Cuentas, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Colombia
Vicente Fabián Moncayo Pérez, Director de la Dirección Nacional de Mitigación al Cambio Climático, Ecuador
Diego Enríquez, Flacso Ecuador, Quito
15:30 Debate (Alentamos la participación activa de todos los expertos en el debate.):
Moderadora: Karina Marzano (EKLA-KAS)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Presentaciones II (15 minutos cada)
Felipe Mandarino, Gerente de Estudios Ambientales y Cambio Climático del Instituto Pereira Passos, Río de Janeiro
Lidiane Melo, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Innovaciones y Comunicaciones, Brasil
Juan Carlos Arredondo, México
17: 30 Resumen de las discusiones y Cierre
Sérgio Margulis, IIS
Nicole Stopfer, Directora EKLA-KAS
19:30 Transfer al Restaurante
viernes, 7 de junio, 2018 - taller Día 2
9:00 Presentaciones III (15 minutos cada)
Laura Mora, Dirección Cambio Climático MINAE, Costa Rica
Delia María Guevara Sánchez, Oficina de Gestión Ambiental, Municipalidad San José
Edwin Castellanos, Sistema Guatemalteco de Ciencias del Cambio Climático (SGCCC), Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Emilio Vargas, Coordinador General de la Dirección de Planificación Urbana, Ciudad de Guatemala
Cinthia Borjas, Jefe y Coordinadora de la Gestión de Riesgos, Tegucigalpa
10:00 Debate (Alentamos la participación activa de todos los expertos en el debate):
Moderadora: Karina Marzano (EKLA-KAS)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Presentaciones IV (15 minutos cada)
Anna Zucchetti, Directora Periferia, Lima
Rogelio Campos, MINAM, Perú
Nico Kohlhas, Oficina de Cambio Climático, Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, Chile
Jordan Harris, Adapt Chile, Red Chilena de Municipios ante el Cambio Climático, Santiago
12:00 Debate (Alentamos la participación activa de todos los participantes)
Moderadora: Karina Marzano (EKLA-KAS)
12:30 Almuerzo
14:00 Presentaciones V (15 minutos cada)
Mirta E. Benítez, Comité Nacional del Plan de Adaptación, Panamá
Enrique Vargas, Subdirector de Cambio Climático y Vulnerabilidad, Alcaldía de Panamá
Myrna Campoleoni, Coordinadora del proceso para la elaboración del Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático en Ciudades e Infraestructuras, Uruguay
Andrea De Nigris, Desarrollo Ambiental, Intendencia de Montevideo
15:00 Debate (Alentamos la participación activa de todos los expertos en el debate):
Moderadora: Anuska Soares (EKLA-KAS)
16:00 Resumen de las discusiones y Cierre
Sérgio Margulis, IIS
Nicole Stopfer, Directora EKLA-KAS
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