Climate Change Unit at Latin America and The
hace 18 horas
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Since 1995, UN Environment has been conducting an ambitious integrated environmental assessment project known as GEO (Global Environment Outlook). GEO reports have an established methodology to detect trends in the state of the environment and to monitor progress towards the achievement of environmental policy targets. The GEO methodology employs a matrix of the Driver Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) indicators to answer these questions as an analytical instrument that permits factors that act on the environment to be organized and grouped in a logical manner. It shows how urbanization affects the environment because of factors that put pressure on local natural resources and ecosystems, as well as action taken by local society and government to confront the problems caused by human activities.
In parallel with the production of GEOs at global, regional, national and city level, UNEP has been promoting the use and implementation of indicator frameworks to strengthen the national and regional environmental information systems and networks, enhance the capacity of countries to keep the environment under review, and promote a more effective and widespread use of environmental data and information in policy and decision making.
In parallel with the production of the GEOs, a Latin American and Caribbean Initiative for Sustainable Development (ILAC) indicators framework was approved in 2003 by the Forum of Environment Ministers of Latin America and the Caribbean to monitor progress towards meeting the ILAC goals, foster the collection and standardization of data at the national level, and assist in developing common methodologies to measure variables. In more recent times (2015) UNEP has taken the role of custodian agency for 25 core environment indicators for Goals 6, 8, 12, 14, 15, and 17 in the global framework for the 2030 Agenda. In this capacity UNEP provides the methodologies used to harmonize country data for international comparability and produce estimates through transparent mechanisms and supports the strengthening of data collection and statistical capacity-building.
In this context, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (SERNA) of Honduras and UNEP have agreed on the implementation of the project Enabling environments to effectively plan, implement, monitor and report strategic National Adaptation Processes in Honduras, framed within the Readiness program of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and referred as “Plan A Honduras Project: Strategic Planning of Climate Adaptation”.
The project aims to sustainably build country capacity in identifying, prioritizing, planning and implementing measures that address medium and long-term adaptation needs considering UNFCCC decisions 1/CP.16 and 5/CP.17 and all elements of the UNFCCC Technical Guidelines for National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). The ultimate objective of the project is to reduce the vulnerability of Honduras to the impacts of climate variability and change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience through the integration of climate change adaptation into planning and implementation within all relevant sectors and at different levels, as appropriate, including the different line ministries, local governments, private sector, and civil society organizations.
The project seeks to achieve its components and objective through:
1. Strengthening the institutional, legal, policy and planning framework.
2. Engaging key stakeholders in climate change adaptation planning and implementation.
3. Financial flows and investment for adaptation measures under the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) fostered.
4. Producing high-quality and pertinent climate change adaptation knowledge.
5. Strengthening the adaptation transparency framework.
SERNA is responsible by legislative mandate for the protection, conservation, restoration and sustainable management of the country's environment and natural resources, with the public interest and the common good as the foundations for its preservation and sustainable economic use, for the benefit of the Honduran population and their future generations.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Honduras (SERNA) is the governing body of environmental resources management in the country and has the responsibility to coordinate the preparation of the National State of the Environment Report (SOER).
Its objectives are:
- To provide access to the best scientific knowledge to generate support for environmental governance and to make evident its links to both the social and economic dimension through agreed development goals.
- To facilitate the interaction between science and public policy through multidimensional and multiscale processes, elaborating products of high credibility and legitimacy.
As a global process, the SOER fits in Honduras’ national political instruments as it states and analyses key concerns that require to b
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