English - Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente

DECIDE:UNEP/LAC-IG.XVII/6Page 511. To promote and strengthen, within our countries, the design andimplementation of effective policies and measures to address adaptation to climatechangeand promote the exchange of experiences and successful programmes aswell as national, sub-regional and regional plans on adaptation to climate change.2. To promote the successful conclusion by 2010 of the negotiation processinitiated by the Bali Road Map, encourage the dialogue on issues of commoninterest of the international negotiations, and, where feasible, coordinate regionalpositions before and during the negotiating sessions.3. To encourage developed countries by virtue of the principle of common butdifferentiated responsibilities to comply with and increase their financial andtechnical support to the countries of the region for actions on adaptation andmitigation, and to comply with their existing obligations considering their historicalenvironmental debt to mitigate emissions, and to engage into new ambitiouscommitments for emission reductions beyond 2012.4. To integrate measures into national development policies, taking into accountthe social, economic and environmental vulnerability of the region, particularly ofSmall Island Developing States, low-lying coastal States and those with fragilemountain ecosystems.5. To urge for the exchange of experiences, tools and methodologies amongcountries in the region and assess the Clean Development Mechanism, inter alia,and the need to have a better regional distribution of projects.6. To cooperate at the regional level for the sustainable management activities fornatural forest as an effective alternative to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and theeffects of climate change.7. To promote practical adaptation actions in the countries of the region aimed atincreasing their adaptive capacity to face the impacts of climate change, linked toan effective disaster risk management; and to urge countries in the region, Forum,UNEP, the ITC, and the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) andother relevant organizations of the United Nations system and internationalfinancial organizations to work towards this end.8. To recognize the need to promote, at the global and regional level, innovativefinancing mechanisms and cleaner technology centres, permitting capacity buildingand the facilitation of technology transfer to undertake actions related to climatechange mitigation and adaptation.9. To request UNEP, and the Secretariat of the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change and other relevant international organizations, tocontinue strengthening the regional capacity to participate actively in the process ofimplementing the Convention.10. To support the ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats andoffices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the Framework Convention on ClimateChange, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and theConvention on Biological Diversity, and encourages closer cooperation within this