What actions does Peru bring to the international community to address climate change?
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- Peru seeks to reduce 31% of its Greenhouse Gases (GHG) by 2030, and also proposes to reduce the population vulnerable to global warming by 25% in the same period of time.
- The actions are focused on the areas of transportation, energy, forestry and solid waste.
Climate change is a phenomenon that affects everyone on the planet and is caused by the emission of GHGs, causing the planet's temperature to warm and increasing climatic variations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fifth Report realizes that immediate action is needed to prevent the planet's temperature from rising above 2 degrees Celsius, and that is why the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) expects COP21 to reach a global agreement to address global warming.
One of the commitments that each country must assume to reduce its GHG emissions is to present its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), through which it determines actions and demonstrates its contribution to the fight against climate change. In view of this, the Ministry of Environment, announced that Peru, through its INDC, seeks to reduce 31% of its GHG by 2030, taking as a reference a projection of emissions to 2030 under the scenario of continuing growth at the current rate. It has also launched its proposal for public consultation (from June 5 to July 17), through which actors from various sectors of society can contribute and give their opinions on Peru's contribution, which is expected to be submitted to the UNFCCC at the end of August.
Mitigation and adaptation actions
Peru's actions are oriented towards mitigation projects, to reduce GHG; and adaptation initiatives, to make populations more resilient to the impacts that climate change may cause. David García, head of research projects at Libélula, explains that the proposal document includes a wide variety of mitigation actions across several sectors that are the result of two years of work. The specialist highlights the following points:
- Transportation: The document presents actions aimed at improving the infrastructure and efficiency of the system through planned lines of the Lima subway, as well as complementary corridors.
- Energy: It promotes greater participation of renewable energies, not only because it promotes a cleaner electricity matrix, but also because it diversifies generation sources, and in turn allows for greater GHG mitigation in the transportation and industrial sectors.
- Forestry: The enabling conditions option is an action that includes land use planning, allocation of rights to forests without rights, land titling, monitoring, control and land use control systems, incentives, among others.
- Solid waste: Measures oriented to landfill methane mitigation, which goes hand in hand with the improvement of waste management in landfills.
In terms of adaptation, one of the most important points that Peru proposes is to reduce the population vulnerable to global warming by 25% by 2030. Carolina Chambi, Libélula's Creation and Development analyst, maintains that it is important to highlight that the contribution in adaptation seeks to “mainstream” the climate change approach in all vulnerable systems and sectors of the country.
“The contribution also raises cross-cutting goals that would directly address several vulnerable productive systems or sectors at the same time, which consider and are based on risk management, information and early warning systems; the promotion of resilient infrastructure, the poverty approach and the promotion of private investment for adaptation.”, said Carolina.
In this link you can download the Public Consultation Plan:
Participatory Construction of the National Contribution: Peru's Proposal (INDCs) for Public Consultation.
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