National Strategy on Climate Change, Executive Decree No. 086-2003-PCM
The National Strategy on Climate Change has the general objective of reducing the adverse impacts of climate change by conducting research that identifies vulnerability and devel-opment strategic action plans to mitigate climate change as well as adaption techniques. The decree acts as a national framework within which the regional and local governments can develop their own policies and action plans. The decree lists 11 strategic lines of action:
– Promote and develop scientific, technological and socio-economic research about vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation in regards to climate change
– Promote policies, measurements (indicators) and projects to develop the capacity for adaptation to the effects of climate change and reduce vulnerability
– Actively participate in international climate change negotiations in order to defend Peru’s national interests and protect the global atmosphere
– Develop policies and measurements for the management of GHG emissions and other air pollutants and for the mitigation of climate change con¬sidering the mechanisms available in the Kyoto Protocol and other economic instruments
– Disseminate knowledge and information about climate change and aspects concerning vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation
– Promotion of projects that have as primary objectives poverty alleviation, reduction of vulnerability and/or mitigation of GHGs
– Promotion of the use of technologies that are adequate and appropriate to adapt to climate change, mitigate GHG emissions and atmospheric contamination
– Achieve the participation of citizens to strengthen the capacity to adapt to climate change and mitigate GHG emissions and atmospheric pollution
– Management of forest ecosystems to mitigate the vulnerability to climate change and increase the absorption of CO2
– Explore the possibility of achieving just compensation for the adverse affects of climate change principally caused by industrialised countries
– Management of fragile ecosystems, especially mountainous ecosystems, in regards to reducing vulnerability to climate change
Each strategic point listed above lays out specific objectives and specific actions to be realised.
