SPECIAL FEATURE THE ESCAZÚ AGREEMENT:
STRENGTHENING CLIMATE ACTION Public participation and access to information and knowledge are essential to design and apply effective climate policies. The Escazú Agreement is an unprecedented tool to catalyze climate governance toward action in Latin America and the Caribbean.
THE CHALLENGE
Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre- industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre- industrial levels (Paris Agreement)
HOW TO TACKLE IT
• Generate and grant access to climate information, increasing awareness
• Guarantee the full and effective participation of all and consider local knowledge in climate policies and actions
• Protect those that defend the environment and climate action
out of 33 countries have set up multi-stakeholder committees or councils to address the challenges of climate change
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Each party shall have in place one or more up-to-date environmental information systems, which may include (...) climate change sources. ART. 6.4
Each party shall take steps to establish a pollutant release and transfer register. ART. 6.5
Each party shall develop and implement an early warning system.
OF 33 COUNTRIES HAVE SIGNED THE ESCAZÚ AGREEMENT, AND 12 HAVE RATIFIED IT, ENABLING IT TO ENTER INTO FORCE ON APRIL 22, 2021.
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and Paraguay by upgrading four main roads with a total length of around 130 km. The area is highly populated and industrialized, and the initiative aims to promote intra-zone and global trade. Improved coordination among
LAC countries will ultimately support improved policies, economies of scale, and higher levels of investment. This will translate into more and better opportunities for Latin American people.
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ART. 6 Education, training and public awareness; (ii) Public access to information on climate change and its effects; (iii) Public participation in addressing climate change and its effects and developing adequate responses.
ART. 12 Parties shall cooperate in taking measures, as appropriate, to enhance climate change education, training, public awareness, public participation and public access to information.
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(ALL 33) COUNTRIES HAVE RATIFIED THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK
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CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE PARIS AGREEMENT
Many of today’s most pressing challenges do not respect national boundaries. They are global in nature and require countries to work together to overcome them.
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ESCAZÚ AGREEMENT Regional agreement on access to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters in Latin America and the Caribbean.
UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE (UNFCCC) International environmental treaty addressing climate change, negotiated and signed by 154 states.
PARIS AGREEMENT A legally binding international treaty on climate change, within the UNFCCC.
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