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Honduras International Coordination The directorate of the PNCC is part of the Climate Change Technical Committee of the CCAD and the technical focal point for the UNFCCC. Adaptation and Mitigation Mechanisms Transport Under analysis. Agriculture National Policy for Integrated Rural Deve lop ment, 2006, general impact studies of Climate Change. Energy From 2008, MARN has demanded compensation for GHG emissions coming from central electricity generators which generate electricty by fuel combustion. Forests and Water Creation of the Water Resources and River Basins and Environmental Quality Units, Accord Min. 239- 2005. Regulation of Discharge and Re-use of Waste Water and Disposal of Sludge, Min. Accord N. 236-2006; PINFOR Programme of forest incentives, Resolution 02.12.2004. Risks Declaration of the Amatitlán, Villalobos and Michatoya River basins as high-risk sectors, Governmental Accord N. 179-2001. Human rights Human rights and Climate Change, Resolution 7/23. International commitments United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in 1992, ratified in 1995 by Decree N. 26-95. Kyoto Protocol, signed, ratified in 1999 by Decree N. 37-2000, in effect since 2005. Legal Structure and Functions The Secretary of Natural Resources and the Environment (SERNA) is the Designated Authority for relations with UNFCCC and KP. The Climate Change Unit is the operational body within the Secretariat, while the CDM Unit for the energy sector, ascribed to the Dirección General de Energía (General Energy Directorate) (DGE), is responsible for the evaluation and promotion of CDM projects in the energy sector; amongst its functions are the formulation, coordination, execution and evaluation of policies related to the protection and use of renewable and alternative energy sources. The Programa Nacional de Cambio Climático (National Programme on Climate Change) (PNCC), as a project managed with funds from GEF, has prepared its first National Communication. The Programme is now preparing the Second National Communication. It participated in the preparation of the project Development of Skills for Stage II of Adaptation to Climate Change in Mexico, Central America and Cuba, which ended with the publication of two documents "Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and Action Plan for the Aguan River Basin in Honduras" and "Current vulnerability of the Aguan River Basin in Honduras Part I". CDMs - Clean Development Mechanisms Approved CDMs Guatemala has 6 projects approved, 2 of them large projects. 66
México International commitments United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed in 1992 and ratified in 1993. Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997 and ratified in 2000. Human resources 4 staff. National Strategy on Climate Change SERNA, the Mario Molina Centre, the Clean Air Institute, the WB and the UNDP organized a Workshop to review the Project of the first Plan Nacional de Gestión de la Calidad de Aire (National Air Quality Management Plan) (PNGCA), with the support of CIDA. National Coordination Coordination is organized according to the issue to be addressed with the other secretaries of state, the academic sector, NGOs, private companies, COPECO etc. There is an inter-institutional technical committee to look into the issue with other secretaries of state such as: Finance, SAG, ICF, Health, SMN and the Academic sector. International Coordination International Coordination is carried out with and through CCAD. CDMs - Clean Development Mechanisms Approved CDMs Honduras has 14 projects in execution, all small; the sector with most representation is hydro-electricity. Legal Structure The Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources) (SEMARNAT) is the body responsible for "leading national policies on Climate Change" (Art. 32 Bis, para. XVI, Organic Law of Federal Public Administration, 2003). The Sub-secretariat of Environmental Planning and Policy of SEMARNAT, through its General Directorate of Climate Change Policies, fills the role of Secretary General of the Intersecretarial Commission on Climate Change. The object of the Comisión Intersecretarial de Cambio Climático (Intersecretarial Commission on Climate Change) (CICC), created in 2005 and permanent in character, is to coordinate the actions of departments and other entities of the Federal Public Administration relating to (i) the prevention and mitigation of emissions GHG and (ii) adaptation to the effects of Climate Change. The CICC is made up of the serving Secretaries of State of the Environment and Natural Resources; Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishing and Food; Communications and Transport; Economy; Social Development; Energy; and Foreign Relations. Its mission is to coordinate the actions of departments and other entities of the Federal Public Administration relating to the formulation and implementation of national policies for the prevention and mitigation of emissions of greenhouse gases, adaptation to the effects of Climate Change, and in general to promote the development of programmes and strategies of climate action relating to compliance with the commitments signed by Mexico in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Secretary of Finance and Public Credit is a permanent guest member at meetings of the Commission. The possibility is now being studied of incorporating other Secretaries of State, including Public Educación and Health, into its work on a permanent basis. The ex-oficio president is the Titular head of SEMARNAT. The deputy president is the Subsecretary of Environmental Planning and Policy of this Secretariat, who is also responsible for the Technical Secretariat of the Commission, through the Dirección General Adjunta para Proyectos de Cambio Climático (General Directorate for Climate Change Policies) (DGAPCC). The CICC has four Working Groups: (i) GT-PECC, Grupo de Trabajo para el Programa Especial de Cambio Climático (Working Group on the Special Programme on Climate Change); (ii) COMEGEI - Comité Mexicano para Proyectos de Reducción de Emisiones y Captura de GEI (Mexican Committee for Projects for the Reduction of Emissions and the Capture of GHG); (iii) GT-INT - Grupo de Trabajo sobre Asuntos Internacionales (Working Group on International Issues); (iv) GT-ADAPT - new - Grupo de Trabajo sobre Adaptación (Working Group on Adaptation). All the member Secretaries take part in these Working Groups, except the COMEGEI in which the Secretariat of Foreign Relations does not take part. 67
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