Perspectives on climate ambition from the Chilean Presidency of COP 25

Agenda

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

COP 25 in Chile: increasing ambition. Cristián Retamal. Negotiation and content advisor, Chilean Presidency COP 25. Download presentation.

Incorporating the concepts of ambition in NDCs: perspectives from Chile. Jenny Mager. Responsible for Mitigation and Climate Pollutant Inventories, Ministry of Environment of Chile. Download presentation.

About the webinar

Following last September's Climate Summit in New York and the pre-COP in Costa Rica, experts from the Chilean COP 25 Presidency will be sharing impressions and different perspectives for increasing ambition in the UNFCCC regime ahead of the COP in Chile next December.

The first part of the webinar will address the reference elements that determine climate ambition and the expectations of the incoming COP 25 Presidency to push for greater ambition towards 2020 when countries are called to renew or update their NDCs.

The second part of the webinar will present the work developed by the Government of Chile to update its NDC with greater ambition. The webinar will be conducted in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the LEDS LAC Platform Secretariat: info@ledslac.org.

About the panelists

Cristián Retamal

Industrial Civil Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with a specialization in environmental engineering and studies in sociology. He also holds an MSc from VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He focuses his work on the transformations and mobilization of efforts that the anthropocene and climate change entail. He closely follows the United Nations international negotiation process on climate change (UNFCCC) and the Sustainable Development Goals. He has a special interest in the articulation of the global energy system, the governance of the international climate regime and the geopolitical dynamics associated with the transition towards post-carbon, resilient and inclusive socio-economic systems. During 2015 he worked with the German think tank Climate Analytics supporting the formulation of (I)NDCs of LDCs and SIDS countries in the run-up to COP21. He has been an advisor to the AILAC negotiating group in the discussion of the Paris Agreement Work Programme until COP 24 last December in Katowice, Poland. He is currently advisor to the Chilean Presidency COP 25.

Jenny Mager

Civil Engineer in Geography from the University of Santiago de Chile and holds a Master's degree in Public Administration and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York. She has more than 10 years of experience in the public and environmental sector. Since 2010 she is part of the Climate Change Office of the Ministry of Environment, where she currently serves as head of the area of mitigation and inventories. Jenny is mainly in charge of MRV and climate transparency issues, coordinating the preparation of the biennial update reports. She is currently leading the process of updating the mitigation component of Chile's NDC and the development of the long-term climate strategy..