Linking NDCs to long-term strategies in Latin America

Agenda

Welcome. Aída Figari. Technical expert of the LEDS LAC Secretariat, Libélula Perú.

Leveraging Nationally Determined Contributions and long-term strategies to implement the Paris Agreement. Juan Carlos Altamirano. Economist, World Resources Institute. | Download presentation

Increasing climate ambition through the development of long-term low-emission development strategies: Mexico's experience. Claudia Octaviano. General Coordinator of Climate Change Mitigation, National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change of Mexico (INECC). | Download presentation

Costa Rica's Decarbonization Plan. Felipe de León Denegri. Advisor, Climate Change Directorate, Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica. | Download presentation

About the webinar

Long-term low-emission development strategies (LTSs) are a crucial policy tool that can help place near-term actions in the context of the long-term structural changes needed to transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy by 2050. These strategies will play an important role in guiding countries towards the global temperature goals of limiting warming to 1.5-2°C above pre-industrial levels, and provide the necessary direction to inform the enhancement of nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

As countries develop their revised NDCs, aligning short-term NDC goals with long-term planning instruments will allow them to avoid short-term investments and decisions that may lock them into undesirable pathways (WRI 2017). This webinar will focus specifically on the benefits of aligning short-term and long-term planning and the specific ways in which partners and member countries have addressed this issue. The webinar will be in. Spanish. If you have any questions or queries, please write to the LEDS LAC Platform at info@ledslac.org.

About the panelists

Juan Carlos Altamirano

Juan Carlos is a Senior Economist in the Economics and Climate Program Center at WRI. He provides economic analysis across the institute and coordinates in-country work on NDC improvement and long-term strategy projects. Juan Carlos previously worked as a senior researcher and lecturer. Prior to joining WRI, he held the David W. Pearce Special Chair in Environmental Economics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Juan-Carlos is an economist from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. He also holds an M.Sc. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from University College London and a Ph.D. in Climate Change Economics from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Claudia Octaviano

She holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences from Yale University and a PhD in Management Systems Engineering and Technology Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a specialist in climate change mitigation, energy and environmental policy, especially in the development of integrated economic and climate change models used to evaluate mitigation policy in Mexico and other Latin American countries.