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Civil Society Seeks Action Against Climate Change<\/STRONG><\/P>Representatives of civil society are asking their environmental ministers and officials throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to include in their country\u2019s national budgets money to be earmarked to finance activities and solutions to confront climate change as the 16thAnnual Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean is underway in Santo Domingo. <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Civil Society Seeks Action Against Climate ChangeRepresentatives of civil society are asking their environmental ministers and officials throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to include in their country\u2019s national budgets money to be earmarked to finance activities and solutions to confront climate change as the 16thAnnual Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of … Continue reading “Civil Society Seeks Action Against Climate Change”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The 16thAnnual Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean is organized by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and Secretary of State for Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic with the participation of 33 countries in the region.
\u201cThe topic of financing programs to deal with climate change has to do with the tightening of our national budgets in all areas,\u201d said Sandro Ch\u00e1vez, representative of Civil Soceity of Latin America from the Andean region. He pointed out that budget cuts in this region have hindered their ability to deal with the challenges of climate change and to mitigate its negative effects.
\u201cIt also has to do with decisions made by our local, regional and national governments in order to get these projects to be incorporated into environmental policy,\u201d he added.
Mexican Carlos G\u00f3mez warned that so long as the issue of climate change is not on the front burner for most government, decisions will not be taken and therefore resources will always be lacking.
\u201cWe have to push the agenda of every country in order to make these important environmental issues a priority, across the board, on all levels of government. If the Environment Ministry is not supported by the Finance Ministry that generates the country\u2019s spending, there will be no coordination with the Economy Ministry in order to development productive environmental projects to then pass on to the Education Ministry which will create educational programs about the issue, if the money is not there in the first place.\u201d
The 16thAnnual Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean, being held in Santo Domingo, is examining the environmental issues that are relevant for the region\u2019s future. Among them are the integrated management of ecosystems and new strategies for stopping the deterioration of natural resources. Also, the ministers are discussing advances in the implementation of the Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean for Sustainable Development (ILAC), regional plan of action, air quality and the state of implementation and future perspectives of multilateral environmental agreements.
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Adriana Valenzuela, de Colombia, Sandro Ch\u00e1vez, representante de la regi\u00f3n andina de la Sociedad Civil de Am\u00e9rica Latina, Carlos G\u00f3mez (M\u00e9xico), presidente de la sociedad, Cecilia Iglesias (Argentina), representante del Cono Sur.
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