Peru approves its National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change by 2050

The Government of Peru approved the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change by 2050, an instrument that promotes the reduction of the country’s vulnerability to the global phenomenon, the Ministry of the Environment (Minam) reported on Wednesday.

The plan was published in the official newspaper El Peruano and is an “input” for the updating of the National Strategy against Climate Change.

“This instrument contributes to reducing risks and vulnerability to the aforementioned global phenomenon for the population and their livelihoods, ecosystems, basins and territories, and infrastructure, goods and services, mainly,” Minam said in a statement.

The document, he added, will also allow the effective implementation of the actions of Our Climate Challenge (NDC), which brings together the measures to be executed in Peru by 2030, and will promote an increase in resilience and sustainable development by 2050.

In addition, it incorporates as two new thematic areas with priority to tourism and transport, which are added to the already established water, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, forests and health.

A PLAN ESTABLISHED BY CONSENSUS

The Ministry stressed that this plan has been the result of “a broad participatory process”, in which representatives “of all actors and sectors” of the country participated in person and virtually, in addition to having gone through a public consultation process.

In this regard, the Minister of the Environment, Gabriel Quijandría, said that if all sectors of his country commit to its implementation, this plan “will reduce and avoid damage, loss and alterations caused by climate change.”

The Deputy Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources, Luisa Elena Guinand, added that the instrument “has maps of climate scenarios that simulate the future climate to 2050, which will allow to identify the increase or decrease in precipitation and temperature at the national level.”

In turn, the general director of Climate Change and Desertification of minam, Rosa Morales, considered that these maps are like a technical-scientific instrument for making strategic decisions that allow reducing the risk of the effects of climate change and carrying out efficient planning.

A NATIONAL STRATEGY

The Minam explained that the plan is one of the main inputs of the National Strategy for Climate Change to 2050, “which is being updated and will establish an adaptation agenda with a long-term view.”

For this, it has strategic actions for its implementation, such as developing capacities for future climate prediction and sustainably using forest resources with training for indigenous, Afro-Peruvian and peasant peoples.

In addition, it proposes to implement good management, improvement and conservation practices in agricultural production systems, the sustainable use of hydrobiological resources for the strengthening of fishing and aquaculture activity and implement management and conservation measures of forest ecosystems.

Minam indicated that, in this perspective, inter-institutional articulation and optimization of the water supply system for multisectoral use will be strengthened, good practices for the management of agricultural soils will be implemented, and infrastructures and processes for energy planning and water management will be developed, among other actions.

Source: El Diario