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The Technical Assistance service offered by the LEDS LAC Platform, to the governments of the Latin American and Caribbean region, aims to provide technical support in the implementation and/or acceleration of its strategies mitigation and adaptation to climate change for short periods of up to a maximum of 6 months.
The Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinEnergía) under the Biogas NAMA Technical Committee led by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development with the participation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Housing, Cities and Territory, had initiated during 2020 the process of formulating a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) and identified as a first step for the development of the same the need to develop a roadmap for the Biogas NAMA as a step prior to the formulation of the NAMA. The objective of the Biogas NAMA will be to promote the production of biogas and biomethane from undisputed residual agricultural biomass, the organic fraction of municipal solid waste and sludge from Wastewater Treatment Plants as a complementary and sustainable energy source to contribute to the achievement of Colombia's NDCs.
The objective of this assistance is to develop a roadmap for the Biogas NAMA and to map the municipalities suitable for the implementation of biogas pilot projects.
Based on the roadmap, the Biogas NAMA will be finalized, which will take into account the lessons learned from the different initiatives that have been developed in the country in this area and will establish a policy framework to integrate and expand efforts.
The city is developing the "Low Carbon Urban Logistics for City 30" project, with the objective of reducing GHG emissions from freight transportation. The technical assistance sought to complement the project by generating guidelines to develop a strategy for the adoption of electric vehicles for last-mile distribution.
Technical assistance to the Urban Transport Authority of the cities of Lima and Callao (ATU) in Peru for the preparation of a Roadmap for an electric mobility policy that seeks to achieve the objectives in terms of emissions reduction in the transport sector of these localities. As a result, the document presents the activities that ATU should promote, with a proposed timeline and an identification of the actors involved for the implementation of the "Electric Mobility Policy" encouraging the promotion of clean alternatives.
This summary presents the main results of the technical assistance provided to Banco de la Nación Argentina (BNA), as part of the Climate Helpdesk support of the Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP).
The city of Rosario has a high population density and 50% of its productive activity comes from retail stores. This means that many modes of mobility coexist. Efficient management of the city's mobility was a challenge.
Mexico City's Metrobús (MB) public passenger transportation system has focused its efforts on reducing its negative socio-environmental impacts, for which, among other measures, it has incorporated technologies to reduce emissions and renewed its fleet.
Mexico City, as the main urban agglomeration and capital of the country, is the political, economic and cultural core of Mexico. It is one of the most dynamic cities in the global economy and the financial center of Latin America.
LEDS LAC is a network of organizations and individuals working in the promotion, design and implementation of LEDS in Latin america and the Caribbean.
