Webinars

Tools for local climate change planning

Day: Wednesday, March 15th, 2017

Time: 09:00-10: 30 am CST (time in Costa Rica)

Agenda

Introduction. Ana María Majano. Coordinator of the LEDS LAC Secretariat, Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).

  1. EUROCLIMA, a Latin American regional program with relevance for local climate responses.
    Jan Karremans. Director of Technical Assistance, EUROCLIMA.  |  Download Presentation
  1. Tools for a local response to climate change.
    Cristóbal Reveco. Director, Adapt-Chile.  |  Download Presentation
  1. EUROCLIMA Thematic Study 8: A planning tool for adaptation to climate change at the local level.
    Carlos Brenes. Consultant of Technical Assistance, EUROCLIMA.  |  Download Presentation
  1. Local planning for climate change: an experience of the Latin American region.
    Gonzalo Durán. Mayor of Municipality of Independencia, Chile.  |  Download Presentation

About the webinar

An effective response to the challenges of climate change requires collaborative action at different levels of government. Municipalities play a central role in both mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

This webinar will present and discuss tools that have been developed by the NGO Adapt-Chile with the support of EUROCLIMA Technical Assistance to support municipalities in the participatory development of local climate change plans. The tools have been validated in workshops with local governments in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Uruguay. The first tool has been published and is available online: http://www.euroclima.org/es/servicios-de-informacion/libros-euroclima

The webinar will be held in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Secretariat of the LEDS LAC Platform: info@ledslac.org.

About the panelists

Anthropologist with a Master in Public Administration and Statistics; Climate Change specialist, with more than 25 years of experience in Latin America. He has led local development projects as well as regional programs in Latin America. He has worked for many institutions, such as the European Commission, IDB, World Bank, CATIE, IICA, IUCN and European and Latin American governments, as an advisor, researcher, teacher and consultant. He is the author of many books and articles.He has been a researcher in adaptation to climate change and carried out climate vulnerability studies in Chile and in Africa. He has experience in the public and private sector on sustainability issues and worked at the United Nations. He is in charge of developing the research network of the Earth System Governance Project for South America.Sociologist with specialization in the environment, ecosystems and rural development. He has been a researcher and consultant for CATIE for more than 30 years and a regional facilitator of the FAO Forests, Trees and Rural Communities Program.

He has been elected as mayor of the municipality of Independencia in 2012. With a study background in Anthropology and Law, he has developed an extensive career within administration of the municipalities of Santiago, Huechuraba, La Florida and Independencia. He directed the Public Order and Citizens’ Security of the Metropolitan Region and worked as consultant for capacity buildings, social projects and advisory services for municipalities. In the international realm, he counts with experience as OAS electoral observer in elections in Bolivia and Ecuador.

EUROCLIMA is a programme funded by the European Union.

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