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The CICC’s constitution authorizes it to establish
sectoral councils able to call on institutions to
undertake sectoral and intersectoral actions. The
actions are coordinated by a ministry and have
a technical secretary, full members, associated
members and guest members. Civil participation
is not formally included in the ENCC. However,
the ENCC emphasizes the relevance of considering
the opinion of civil society when implementing
adaptation actions at the local level.
Peru
MINAM is the institution responsible for climate
change adaptation and creates the National Strategy
for Climate Change (Ministerio del Ambiente,
2015). MINAMhas a General Directorate of Climate
Change, Desertification and Water Resources
(DGCCDRH) that directly supervises climate
change policy. Though MINAM is a governing
body, it has to coordinate its actions on sectoral
issues with other ministries. For instance, to
address climate change impacts on fishing, MINAM
has to coordinate with the Ministry of Production.
Further, MINAM’s budget has to be approved by the
Ministry of Economy and Finance, though climate
change research and projects are also funded
by other sources such as through international
cooperation. The funds, however, support specific
projects (responding to a specific interest of the
concerned funding agency or country) for a specific
period of time.
Peru’s governing agency leads a National
Commission for Climate Change (CNCC). Within
this Commission, civil society and the government
exchange proposals and evidence to assess the
effects of climate change. CNCC has technical
groups formed by intersectoral entities addressing
several topics, including climate change adaptation.
Additionally, Peru’s subnational governments have
to include climate change considerations in their
development plans. In September 2014, 14 regional
governments agreed to draw up Regional Strategies
for Climate Change (RSCC), 23 had created Regional
Technical Groups for Climate Change, and one
formed a Regional Council for Climate Change and
elaborated an Implementation Plan for its RSCC
(Ministerio del Ambiente, 2015).
Peru hosted the UNFCCC COP20 in December
2014, which put climate change and mountains on
the national agenda and empowered civil institutions
working on it. Currently, there is activism for climate
change awareness in the population; particularly
among youngpeople. Some indigenous organizations
participated in the COP and have undertaken
various actions to build capacity and adopt climate
change adaptation measures. Furthermore, there are
high expectations for the adaptation goals proposed
in the INDC, which include increasing water
availability; reducing the negative impacts of climate
change on agriculture and fisheries; increasing forest
resilience through sustainable land management
and taking a landscape perspective; and reducing
vulnerability and increasing resilience to climate
change effects on health.
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The National Adaptation
Plan – the national instrument for implementing
these goals – is expected to be elaborated soon;
however, funding has not been secured to complete
the activities needed.
The CICC has the following objectives in the
context of climate change:
1. Leading and coordinating the execution of
policies relevant to climate change, the ENCC
and the agreements of the UNFCCC
2. Promoting research and technical input for
policy development
3. Coordinating the preparation and validation
of mitigation and adaptation parameters for
public budgeting projects
4. Enabling the participation, counselling and the
assembling of specific work groups
5. Supporting
capacity-building,
technical
counselling, specialization and diffusion of
innovations
6. Gaining additional financial and technical
support through international cooperation
7. Defining official positions and delegations for
international negotiations and
8. Coordinating, facilitating the preparation
of, and approving the national reports and
technical instruments for international
presentations.
Case study: Objectives of the CICC