Caribbean nations take part for the primary time as full members within the Annual Assembly of Euroclima, the European Union’s flagship programme for cooperation on local weather change in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Fourteen nations from the Caribbean are among the many 33 nations which are taking part within the Euroclima Annual Assembly, being held March 5 – 7 on the Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española in Antigua, Guatemala. Euroclima is the European Union’s flagship programme to fight local weather change and defend biodiversity within the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) areas. This primary annual assembly because the integration of 14 further Caribbean nations into the programme brings Euroclima stakeholders collectively to assessment the achievements of the previous yr and focus on precedence actions for 2024.
The Annual Assembly of the Euroclima Programme in Guatemala is a key alternative to assessment methodologies, share classes realized and chart new sectoral goals and timelines for reaching the core goal of the programme – contributing to a inexperienced and simply transition for Latin America and the Caribbean; a transition in direction of round economies which are carbon-neutral, resilient, risk-assessed, built-in with nature, sustainable, inclusive, and equitable.
“The results of local weather change, biodiversity loss and air pollution have gotten more and more severe. Throughout the EU-CELAC Summit in July 2023, the European Union and our Latin American and Caribbean companions dedicated to spice up efforts to sort out this international problem collectively. That’s the reason we’re widening each the geographic and thematic scope of the Euroclima Programme to confront this existential risk to life on our planet,” affirmed European Commissioner for Worldwide Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen.
Euroclima made essential progress in 2023 thanks to a few key milestones, which included the integration of 14 Caribbean countries into the programme – Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. This growth constructed on the EU-Caribbean partnerships launched by Commissioner Urpilainen in 2022. The second pivotal second was the relaunching of relations between the European Union and Latin American and the Caribbean in the course of the EU-CELAC Summit in July. Thirdly, 2023 noticed the launch of the EU-LAC Global Gateway Investment Agenda, which can permit Euroclima to drive higher local weather insurance policies, in addition to facilitate formidable inexperienced infrastructure initiatives within the area.
“As long-standing companions within the LAC area, we’re excited to witness the growth of Euroclima to the broader Caribbean and the alternatives to construct on the continued regional help below a variety of initiatives. Euroclima supplies the chance to streamline our efforts and strengthen the Staff Europe strategy in a collaborative manner. It attracts on the distinctive experience that EU Members States can provide to deal with the triple planetary disaster. Extra importantly, the programme affords the chance of leveraging personal investments to make sure the scalability and sustainability of EU local weather motion within the framework of the World Gateway Funding Agenda,” famous the European Union’s Ambassador to Barbados, the Japanese Caribbean States, the OECS and CARICOM/CARIFORUM, Malgorzata Wasilewska.
Commissioner Urpilainen was represented in Guatemala by the Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the European Fee’s Directorate-Basic of Worldwide Partnerships, Félix Fernández-Shaw, who included the Annual Assembly of the Euroclima Programme as one of many key moments of his go to to Guatemala.
Guatemala’s Minister of Atmosphere and Pure Sources, María José Iturbide, asserted, “This partnership with the European Union is of nice profit to Guatemala, particularly with the regional growth programme, EUROCLIMA, by which we’re implementing a sequence of initiatives that may profit the Guatemalan folks.”
“Just lately, we introduced the strategic pillars and measures that should underpin the event of a Nationwide Transition Technique in direction of the Round Financial system in Guatemala. Work can also be being finished to implement the Strategic Plan for the Manabique Level and Cuyamel-Omoa Sustainable Organic Hall – Wildlife Refuge, a two-country venture that additionally contains Honduras. And we proceed to discover new collaborations with the Euroclima Programme with the goal that every one meets its goal of environmental sustainability and local weather adaptation and mitigation.”
Since its creation in 2010, the Euroclima Programme has launched greater than 260 initiatives with accomplice nations. Some initiatives have pushed large-scale nationwide initiatives (reminiscent of the event of long-term local weather methods, local weather change laws, gender and local weather change motion plans, amongst many others), others have been designed as localized pilot initiatives with the potential to be replicated in different territories (reminiscent of the electrification of the ‘tuk-tuk’ fleet in Chimaltenango or the administration of urban water in the Marqués Valley in Guatemala; the urban bicycles network in Guadalajara, Mexico; or the event of Regional Climate Change Action Plans in Chile).
Since 2010, the European Union has accredited an quantity of €265 million for Euroclima. Some actions have been accomplished, others are presently being carried out, and a few €50 million stay to be allotted/carried out. An extra quantity of €50 million is within the technique of being accredited, which might deliver the whole accessible quantity for cooperation with the area to roughly €100 million.
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