Businesses recognize development opportunities in the face of climate change
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- Libélula and Peru 2021, with the support of WWF, organized a breakfast to involve the Peruvian private sector in the National Contribution process.
- In order to curb climate change, governments must present their contribution to reducing greenhouse gases to the international community by October of this year.
Under the name: "The Impact of the Peruvian Sector on National Contribution"On Thursday, July 2, representatives of more than 25 organizations, mainly private sector companies, as well as NGOs and public entities, met to learn about the process being carried out by the Peruvian government to present its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) and the opportunities that this context offers them. This event was attended by representatives from the Ministry of the Environment, Libélula, Peru2021 and WWF. Henri Le Bienvenu, General Manager of Peru 2021 and Patricia León Melgar, WWF Representative, gave the welcoming remarks and highlighted the importance of the private sector becoming interested in the climate change issue.
Pía Zevallos, Libélula's Creation and Development Manager and advisor to the Peruvian negotiating team for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, began the presentations by explaining the international context and the need for countries to present their INDCs. "So far, 44 contributions have been submitted to the convention," said Pía. "The role of INDCs is catalytic because they can and should contribute to motivate actions outside the state," he added.
Claudia Figallo, General Coordinator of the General Directorate of Climate Change, Desertification and Water Resources of the Ministry of the Environment, continued the presentations to explain the process being carried out by the Peruvian government to present its INDC. He indicated that Peru is doing a rewarding job by developing its contribution within a participatory process, which will allow to start changing the paradigm of development as a society, in which the concept of climate change as a possibility of development of the various sectors of societies must be clear. "The Peruvian contribution will contain information generated through different national interventions"he said.
Javier Perla, Libélula's Sustainable Business Manager, followed to present the Corporate Climate Commitment initiative, which seeks to bring together companies to make visible the initiatives they are carrying out to address climate change. This initiative is embodied through the 7C platform (www.7c.com.pe), which allows companies to measure their degree of maturity in relation to climate change. Javier said that climate change encourages society to act in a different way and for this it is necessary for companies to begin to change their vision of development, which must be accompanied by environmental sustainability.
"It is far more astute to see the opportunities offered by climate change, companies must see the possibility of pioneering the momentous change brought about by global warming."concluded Javier. He then presented to the attendees a tool developed for companies to learn how to make a contribution, which was used by those present to perform the exercise and better understand how this process works.
The closing remarks were given by Carlos Loret de Mola, Head of the Public Front of MINAM, who stressed the importance of companies becoming allies in this national process.
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