Climate Change in Latin America - European Commission

Table 3
Regional and sub regional institutions related to Climate Change.
The Institutions are classified by type and organisations representing the Party Nations
in the Conferences of Parties are marked with an asterisk (*).
Name and Type of Institution
Recent activities related to Climate Change
Intergovernmental Organisations
Latin American Parliament*
Discussion panal on the
environment and tourism
Latin America Energy Organisation*
Organisation of American States
Department of Sustainable
Development
The Central American Environment
and Development Commission*
Coordination Centre for the
Prevention of Natural Disasters
in Central America
Regional Committee on Water
Resources
Unasur
Andean Community*,
Andean Council of Ministers for the
Environment and Foreign Affairs
Andean Commission for Preventing
and Dealing with Disasters
Andean Development Corporation
Amazon Co-operation Treaty
Organisation
Common Southern Market
Work Group 6 for the Environment
Research centres
Water Centre for the Humid Tropics
of Latin America and the Caribbean
Water Centre for Arid and Semi-arid
Areas of Latin America
and the Caribbean
International Centre for Investigation
into the El Niño Phenomenon
Inter-American Institute*
Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean
Inter-American Institute
for Cooperation on Agriculture
Tropical Agricultural Research
and Higher Education Centre
Networks
Ibero-American Network
of Climate Change Offices
Alliance for Climate Change
Mitigation and Adaptation and Risk
Management in Latin America and
the Caribbean
International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction, Regional Office
for the Americas
Latin America and the Caribbean
Network of Environmental Funds
It is carrying out a regional communication programme on environmental
citizenship, in conjunction with the UNEP.
Numerous projects for increasing the sustainable use of renewable
and clean energies and other energy and energy efficient alternatives,
with specific programmes at a national and sub-regional level.
Programme to Reduce the Risk of Natural Disasters
and the Inter-American Disaster Mitigation Network.
Environmental Plan for the Central America Region; Central American
Environmental Information System; Guidelines on the Regional Strategy
for Climate Change, Regional Agri-environmental Strategy, Central American
Biological Corridor.
Humanitarian Information Network for Latin America and the Caribbean,
projects to prevent natural risks and disaster management with the support
of the EU.
Central America Climate Forum, with EU support; BID RG-T1203 project
for the design, development and implementation of a database
of climate data for Central America.
Combate the causes and effects of Climate Change, together
with the protection of biodiversity, water resources and cooperation
for disaster prevention.
The Andean Environmental Agenda envisages the formulation of a strategy
to tackle and mitigate the negative effects of Climate Change. Creation
of two reference documents on climate impacts and priorities (UNEP and AECI).
Prevention of natural risks and disaster management projects (EU).
The Latin American Carbon and Alternative Clean Energies Programme
(PLAC+e), Wigton megaprojects for wind energy and mass transport system.
Regional Programme for the Integral Management of Water Resources
in the Amazon Basin.
Regional clean production projects (EU).
Strategy for Adapting Water Resources and Agriculture in Central America,
Cuba and Mexico to Climate Change.
Database and atlas on the subject; CAMINAR Study (The Management
of Basins and the Impact of Mining in Arid and Semi-arid regions of South
America), financed by the EU, Research into the Management of Climate Risks.
Scientific and applied research projects into ENSO and climate variability
on a regional scale.
Scientific excellence.
Economic studies on the impact of Climate Change,
using the Stern methodology (EU).
Specialist publications, sustainable rural development.
Projects for Climate Change adaptation and mitigation in the agricultural
and forestry sectors, including the TroFCCA (Tropical Forests and Climate
Change Adaption) and FORMA (Fortalecimiento del MDL en Ibero América
(Strengthening CDMs in Ibero-America)) projects (EU).
Exchange of experiences and the Ibero-American Programme for the
Evaluation of Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaption to Climate Change in
coordination with the Spanish Cooperation Programme and the Conference
of Directors of the Ibero-American Meteorological and Hydrological Services.
The implementation and systematisation of local mitigation and adaptation
experiences and the development of Climate Change models and scenarios
for agriculture (EU).
Regional coordination and distribution of information on the subject
of disaster reduction.
Information and technical support for the conservation of biodiversity,
Payment for Environmental Services and REDD
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