The country will prepare resources for climate change

Just after week began implementation of a pilot project which seeks to strengthen the capacities and skills of human resources to address climate change in the country. It's the platform services training in change climate A CC:Learn, who runs the Institute for training and research of the United Nations (UNITAR, for its acronym in English), in coordination with the National Council on climate change and mechanism of clean development (CNCCMDL).

Initiative seeks to develop a national strategy to identify the needs of the country on the subject, as well as the actions that have been developed in the short, medium and long terms.

Dominican Republic is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean participating in the pilot project, together with Benin, Indonesia, Malawi and Uganda. The five countries were selected from among 23 Nations who applied.

Adriana Valenzuela, UNITAR, and u000awho was in the country to leave started the project which will have a duration of 18 months, said that the participation of Dominican Republic is relevant because to work item it structured a National Council, which considered innovative. "In other countries it is taken as environmental issues, and climate change is a matter of development and an inter-agency and cross-sectoral work is needed." "The Council is a platform which articulates all these actions," precise.

Also evaluated the problem of global warming has been addressed in the Dominican Constitution, and it is contained in one of the pillars of the national development strategy. To this he adds that it is preparing a survey of public perceptions about what he thinks the Dominican society on climate change. "This is a significant step forward and why UNITAR selects Dominican Republic for the pilot project," he argues. He said that the topic is so important u000afor United Nations there are 30 agencies worldwide working on the project A CC:Learn, with the interest of strengthening capacities and create awareness citizen, on the basis of tackling climate change also implies a cultural transformation.

Local dynamics
Omar Ramírez Tejada, Vice President of the CNCCMDL, said that for the implementation of the pilot project are involving some 20 public and private entities with programmes of climate change, with the interest that work in a coordinated manner and that participate in the design of the national strategy to strengthen the capacities and skills of human resources to move towards a green developmentwith low emissions and resilience climate.

"The issue of climate change is a complex to interpret and communicate phenomenon." We have the determination to work to decode that language and that code, and take it to the foundation of the society to u000a"through school, pedagogical instruments for the generation that goes up and is also vulnerable," it refers.

Reports that in that tenor had meetings with representatives of organizations that work on the topic, with a view to the completion of a national workshop for planning to be held on February 2, which will take stock of the national priorities of climate change, initiatives and challenges for the development of capabilities.

Among the entities that have been in contact appointment which make up the CNCCMDL United Nations, national network of business support to environmental protection (Renaepa), Climacción, Instituto Dominicano for Integral Development (IDDI), Global Foundation, democracy and development (Funglode), universidad Intec, and others.

Ramirez indicated that together with the design of the national strategy, will implement two pilot projects, one with a view to insert the item in the u000aMinistry of education, including through teachers so that they constitute trainers on the subject, and another in the area of non-formal education.

Advises, which soon also disseminated the results of a study of perception and knowledge of climate change in Dominican society, which took place under the auspices of the United Nations programme for development (UNDP), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the United States for development (USAID) Agency. "The information were lifted in September, by a recognized firm." "Some 1,500 surveys have been implemented at the national level and they are processed," he explained.

Republic Dominican IRÁ A LA COP17
since Monday and until December 9 takes place in Durban, South Africa, the 17ava Conference of the parties (COP17) of the of the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change u000a(UNFCCC).

The Vice President of the National Council on climate change and the mechanism for clean development (CNCCMDL), Omar Ramírez Tejada, will preside over the delegation which will be comprised of Deputy Ministers of environment, Manuel Serrano and Zoila González; by the Director of the National Bureau of meteorology, Gloria Ceballos; by the Director of the economic and Social analysis of the Economics Ministry Adviser UnitPlanning and development, Magdalena Lizardo, and by the Ambassador in Environmental Affairs, Venice Álvarez.

Ramirez indicated that the country, as well as other classified as "developing", emphasis will be on that as a result of this World Summit conclusive decisions can be made in:

• Green climate fund. Concerned that the current year achieved significant progress in that regard in the four meetings to its conformation, and that only United States u000aand Saudi Arabia have raised objections to it.
"We understand that this situation can be remedied in Durban," concerns.

• Architecture of the adaptation Committee. Thereby, countries with high vulnerability to the effects of climate change may streamline the knowledge of their adaptation projects, so that they are endowed with the necessary resources for its implementation.

• System of monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV). Also purport that in discussions on the system MRV of GHG emissions greenhouse is determined in developing countries to provide reports on a voluntary basis.

"If its universal compulsory, developed countries must fulfill its mission of providing the resources for which to develop their twice-yearly reports and referred to the Convention", regard.

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