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Bogotá, 26^th September 2024

UNEP and its partner organisation Fedesarollo hosted a final validation workshop for the NDC Action project in Colombia. The session was opened by Sebastian Carranza, climate coordinator for UNEP in the LatAm region and chaired by Paola Herrera, regional coordinator for the NDC Action project. In attendance were key technical staff from the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development and the National Development Agency.

Written by Juan Benavides and Javier Blanco

Aims and main message

Written by Juan Benavides and Helena Garcia

Key messages

Aim and main message

Climate financing in developing countries faces challenges for massive resource mobilization because of market and coordination failures. Improving transversal governance through an institutional triplet can solve these challenges by providing a sense of direction and facilitating the construction of attractive portfolios for the abundant financing available worldwide, especially from institutional investors.

New series of training courses on preparation of concept notes for financial institutions for NDC financing covering three global regions underway.

More than 250 people joined a recent UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre training course on NDC finance and proposal development tailored to bolster the capabilities of National Technical Institutions and governments across Latin America.

The NDC Action Costa Rica project has successfully crafted the inaugural Methodology for developing roadmaps aimed at fostering the adaptation and decarbonization of organizations. This framework emphasizes the interconnections between adaptation and decarbonization, advocating for actions that mitigate vulnerability to the current and future impacts of climate change within Costa Rica and its various productive sectors.

Climate change training for government employees

During the months of August and September, an online training program on climate policies was delivered with @eco.house and @sustentibilidad_sin_fronteras, thanks to funding from the NDC Action project in Argentina. Through these local partners, adaptation and mitigation issues were worked on together with more than 200 civil servants and technicians from federal government.
 

In the context of Latin American and Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW), the UNEP Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) brought together representatives of the NDC Action Project from Costa Rica, Colombia and Argentina to share experiences, successes and challenges in the implementation of projects in their respective countries during an event held in Panama City on October 26, 27 and 28, 2023.

Cartagena, Colombia

Within the framework of the 1^st Hydrogen and Energy Efficiency Congress developed by the National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI) the local NDC Action project team contributed to a discussion on the barriers and opportunities to help achieve the country’s NDC through accelerated action on industrial energy efficiency.

The Agreement for Climate Action is a platform for exchange and continuous training to articulate initiatives between the public and private sectors, in support of Argentina's climate commitments.

Federal Law No. 27,520 on Minimum Budgets for Adaptation and Mitigation to Global Climate Change establishes (Article 20) that the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires must develop Climate Change Response Plans, developed through participatory processes. These plans must develop a technical baseline and assessment, to identify priority area of action in terms of both mitigation and adaptation, as well as specific and measurable goals.

A new roadmap on how to finance Colombia’s contributions to the Paris Agreement has been developed with support from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre

The Government and private sector in Colombia now have a better idea of how the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement can be financed.

A new roadmap, outlining ways to finance the urgently needed climate action was presented this month. It was developed with direct support from the NDC Action project, managed by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.

Capacitaciones del Programa País de Carbono Neutralidad

Cerca de 1000 personas se han capacitado para apoyar la descabonización del país

Cerca de 1000 personas se han capacitado para apoyar la descarbonización del país gracias a capacitaciones gratuitas desarrolladas por la Dirección Nacional de Cambio Climático (DCC) del del Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MINAE) con el apoyo del Proyecto NDC Action y la Alianza Empresarial para el Desarrollo (AED), en el marco del Programa País de Carbono Neutralidad (PPCN).

1.300 personas fueron capacitadas en Carbono Neutralidad y temas asociados tras ciclo de talleres virtuales

Source: https://cambioclimatico.go.cr/1300-personas-capacitaciones-carbono-neutralidad-talleres-virtuales/