2016
August 3 | Panama City, Panama
Parliamentary Action to Stop Climate Change
PRESENTATIONS
- Plácida Espinoza Mamani, Senator (Bolivia) (in Spanish)
- Carlos Viteri Gualinga, Member of the National Assembly (Ecuador) (in Spanish)
- Arnaldo Giuzzio Bnítez, Senator (Paraguay) (in Spanish)
- Mónica Araya, Executive Director (Nivela) (in Spanish)
- María del Rocío Pineda Gochi, Senator (México) (in Spanish)
RESOURCES DISTRIBUTED BY UNEP
- Creating a Sustainable Financial System – A Role for Finance Ministries (October 2015)
- Uncovering Pathways towards an Inclusive Green Economy – A Summary for Leaders (2015)
- Actions on Air Quality – Policies & Programmes for Improving Air Quality around the World
- Financial Reform, Institutional Investors And Sustainable Development – A review of current policy initiatives and proposals for further progress (October 2015)
- Global Environment Outlook Geo-6 Regional Assessment For Latin America And The Caribbean
- Green Energy Choices: the benefits, risks and trade-offs of low-carbon technologies for electricity production (2016)
- INSURANCE 2030 – Harnessing Insurance for Sustainable Development (June 2015)
- Integrated Assessment of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in Latin America and the Caribbean – Improving air quality while contributing to climate change mitigation
- Marine plastic debris and microplastics – Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change (2016)
- Options for decoupling economic growth from water use and water pollution – A report of the Water Working Group of the International Resource Panel (2015)
- Raising the bar – advancing environmental disclosure in sustainability reporting (2015)
- REDD+ Implementation: A Manual for National Legal Practitioners (2015)
- Resource Efficiency: Potential and Economic Implications (2015)
- The Adaptation Gap Report 2016
- THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM WE NEED – ALIGNING THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM WITH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (The UNEP Inquiry Report, October 2015)
- The rise of environmental crime – A growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security
- UNEP FRONTIERS 2016 REPORT – Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
- Unlocking the sustainable potential of land resources – evaluation systems, strategies and tools
- Zero carbon Latin America – a pathway for net decarbonisation of the regional economy by mid-century
RESOURCES – BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- Introduction to Climate Change – UNEP
- Climate Change and its Consequences for Latin America (in Spanish) – FES
- Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report – Summary of policy-makers – IPCC
- Legislative Contributions to Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean (in Spanish) – UNEP
- The 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study – LSE
- Parliamentary action plan on climate change – IPU
- Economics of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean – CEPAL
- Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development – CEPAL
- A catalog of Climate Change adapation options – IDRC
- Supporting Energy Pricing Reform and Carbon Pricing Policies Through Crediting – IISD
For general information on climate change and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, please visit the following link (UNFCCC). INAUGURAL SPEECHES
- Mr. Elías Castillo, MP (Panama), Secretary General of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (in Spanish)
- Mr. Javier Ortega, MP (Panama), Representative of the National Assembly of Panama and Member of the Board of Directors of ParlAmericas (in Spanish)
- Senator Marcela Guerra (Mexico), President of ParlAmericas (in Spanish)
- Hon. Ms. Mirei Endara (Panama), Minister of the Environment (in Spanish)
