Webinar for practitioners from Latin America and the Caribbean Potentials of sectoral public policies to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement

• Day: Wednesday, May 20, 2020.
•  Time: 09:00 - 10:30 am (CST, Costa Rica time)
•  Check the webinar time according to your location: https://bit.ly/2WLxcyw

Agenda

Introduction. Eduardo José Sánchez Sierra. Secretariat Coordinator, LEDS LAC Platform.

Climate change and public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for compliance with the Paris Agreement. Joseluis Samaniego. Director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). |Download presentation

Use of the EN ROADS climate simulator to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Eduardo Fracassi. Ambassador, Climate Interactive.

Closing remarks. Alia Hassan. Outreach Officer, Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G).

About the webinar

In its special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) incorporated carbon dioxide removal (CDD) into emissions trajectories. As discussions about climate-altering technologies and their governance gain ground in climate change negotiations, it is important that practitioners in the region have sufficient information to position themselves in these discussions.

In this context, ECLAC, in the framework of the EUROCLIMA+ Program, LEDS LAC Platform and C2G are developing a series of webinars that will strengthen their knowledge about these approaches, understand the risks and benefits that these technologies entail, the impact they could have on the achievement of the SDGs and the challenges of their governance.

To kick off this series, this first webinar will address the region's current challenges in meeting its goals under the Paris Agreement. In addition, it will present the EN-ROADSa climate policy simulator developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems and MIT Sloan. Through the use of this simulator, climate change practitioners will create public policy scenarios to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

This webinar will be held in Spanish and will have simultaneous translation into English. If you have any questions or concerns, please write to the LEDS LAC Platform at [email protected].

About the panelists

Additional material

EN-ROADS Simulator

• Key messages report

• Summary of policies:

  • Governance for large scale carbon dioxide removal

  • Governance of nature-based solutions for carbon dioxide removal

  • Governance of carbon dioxide removal in the marine environment

• Governance of large-scale carbon dioxide removal: Are we ready?

More information at: https://www.c2g2.net/publications/

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