The Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) launched today the Climate Commitment Week to continue the path traced last year during COP20\/CMP10, through a participatory, planned and organized initiative towards COP21 in Paris.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Climate Commitment Weeks are spaces for reflection, debate and information exchange aimed at highlighting Peru's climate responsibility in its different roles. The idea is that a solid team can arrive in Paris with a leadership role for Peru in the climate debate\u201d.\u201d<\/em>, The Minister of the Environment, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, explained that Peru's actions are an essential part of achieving a climate agreement at the next COP21 in Paris.<\/p>\n To kick off this Climate Commitment Week, a forum was held: \u201cImportance and Need for a Climate Change Law\u201d, which was attended by the Minister of Environment Manuel Pulgar-Vidal; Daniel Abugattas, congressman and representative of the Globe Peru Working Group; Mar\u00eda Isabel Ort\u00edz, congresswoman and representative of Globe International Mexico; Federico Pariona, congressman and President of the Commission of Andean Amazonian and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, Environment and Ecology and Manuel Dammert, congressman and President of the Commission of Decentralization, Local Governments and Modernization of State Management.<\/p>\n The purpose of the Forum was to analyze and share experiences on the need and importance of having a legal mandate on Climate Change to strengthen climate governance, as a precedent that can contribute to international negotiations in their global effort to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.<\/p>\n Experiences from Latin America were shared, such as the implementation of the Climate Change Law in Mexico by Mar\u00eda Isabel Ort\u00edz, who emphasized the need to have a law that can be linked to city planning, as well as to integrate specialized working groups through the identification of needs and objectives.<\/p>\n The importance of a Climate Change law lies in guiding the country towards a low GHG emissions economy and setting an example for other nations, thus promoting innovation, research and scientific\/technological development for the good of society.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) launched today the Climate Commitment Week to continue the path traced last year during COP20\/CMP10, through a participatory, planned and organized initiative towards COP21 in Paris.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[343,100,346,283],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categorizar","tag-comunicacion","tag-desarrollo","tag-ley-cambio-climatico","tag-medio-ambiente"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libelula.com.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}