The ccGAP is an intersectional document aiming at advancing women empowerment and enabling gender equality while setting climate change response plans. It focuses in priority on Infrastructure, Energy and transport; waste; forests; water; sustainable agriculture and food security; Health; coastal zones; Disaster risk reduction, preparedness and resilience; and Tourism.

This document defines the government's transversal climate change policy. It defines principles, objectives and a range of instruments (fiscal, regulatory, communication) to implement. It further suggests corrections to bring to the Multi-annual National Plan for the Public Sector so that it takes into account climate change.&nbsp;<br><br>Its objectives are: 1) Manage climate variability directly or indirectly attributed to human activity and the effects it generates on the population and the national territory, through an adequate strategy, programming, plans and projects at the national level, in accordance with the provisions of the Convention United Nations Framework on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, 2) Incorporate adaptation to climate change as a transversal policy within the National Development Strategy 2030, and its articulation with other transversal policies, in particular environmental sustainability, risk management, territorial cohesion and gender equity, and 3) favour a political and institutional framework favorable to a low development in greenhouse gas emissions and resilient to climate change. Decree 269-15, which establishes the policy, is detailed in Chapter 5.

This document sets the country's adaptation vision to 2030.

This law establishes the institutional framework for the creation of the National System for Food and Nutrition Sovereignty and Security, which will be in charge of the elaboration and development of food and nutritional sovereignty and security policies, as instruments aimed at respect, protect, facilitate and exercise the right to adequate food in accordance with the principles of human rights to improve the quality of life of the Dominican population.<br><br>Article 6 on the rights to food security notably states that people have the right to be protected from the consequences of adverse climatic events.

This document promotes a cleaner and more efficient use of resources.&nbsp;

This law aims to include environmental education into all levels of the country's schooling and academic system.&nbsp;<br><br>Its stated goals are 1) build skills by creating skills and values ​​that lead to sustainable development, based on equity, social justice and respect for biological diversity; 2) Promote the implementation of policies and measures for adaptation to climate change and the management of climate risks; 3) Foster the development of an environmental awareness and understanding of the environment in its many aspects and its complex relationships; 4) Encourage the adoption of behaviors in the individual and human groups, and the development of skills to search for joint solutions to environmental problems that generate climate change, contributing to the prevention of environmental impacts and the ability to plan solutions those that already exist, emphasizing the impacts generated by climate change; 5) Encourage the extension of practices and sustainable ways of life in the different territorial contexts of the Dominican Republic, based on the rational and supportive use of resources, as well as on the respectful enjoyment of the environment; 6) Articulate environmental education and communication with risk management to develop a culture of resilience aimed at minimizing the effects of disasters caused by natural phenomena and human activity. This would lead to a decrease in adverse effects of these threats and prepare appropriate and immediate responses; 7) Contribute to the construction of a local management based on the principles of sustainability, for which environmental education is an instrument in favor of a sustainable way of life locally; 8) Encourage the mass media to acquire specialized, appropriate technical knowledge related to environmental conservation, in order to adequately disseminate it to the population; and 9) Develop through environmental education an ethical awareness towards environmental values.

The Constitution of Dominican Republic was adopted in 2015; one of almost 40 Constitutions that the country has had since its first Constitution from 1844.&nbsp; The Congress, transformed into a Reviewing National Assembly (Asamblea Nacional Revisora), approved this latest Constitution with 168 votes in favor, one against and 78 absentees. An interesting feature of this Constitution is that its preamble establishes that the Republic is ruled by the supreme value and fundamental principle of, among others, ecological equilibrium. Its climate provision was included within an article that establishes a plan of territorial ordering. This article provides for a territorial order that ensures efficient and sustainable use of natural resources to adapt to climate change. It further states that this is a priority of the State. The article referred to, article 194, reads: “The formulation and execution, through law, of a plan of territorial ordering that ensures the efficient and sustainable use of the natural resources of the Nation, in accordance with the necessity of adaptation to climate change, is a priority of the State”.&nbsp;

This document sets the government's adaptation strategy for the agricultural sector over the period 2014-2020. The objective of this document is to establish the necessary elements to identify, articulate and guide the policy instruments, as well as the actions and measures necessary to strengthen the adaptation capacities of the agricultural sector. It is mainly focused on small and medium agricultural producers, reducing the vulnerabilities of their production systems, through the reduction of climate risks and the increase of resilience. The strategy defines and promotes agricultural innovation and research processes through the use of a model that allows to adjust, reduce and achieve a greater resilience capacity of production systems in the face of vulnerability and the effects of climate change.

This law reduces import tariffs on cars that run on alternative fuels, such as hybrid and electric vehicles.

The National Development Strategy was signed into law in January 2012. It contains a central theme that mandates national adaptation to climate change. The Law establishes a binding commitment to achieve a reduction in GHG emissions of 25% by 2030, compared to 2010 levels, and mandates a review of targets to reduce emissions every five years until 2030. Additionally, mandates that GDP increase by 140% over the period 2010-2030.

Dominican Republic First NDC (Updated submission), Nationally Determined Contribution from Dominican Republic in 2020

Dominican Republic. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR 1., Biennial Update Report from Dominican Republic in 2020

Dominican Republic. National Communication (NC). NC 3., National Communication from Dominican Republic in 2017

Dominican Republic First NDC (Archived), Nationally Determined Contribution from Dominican Republic in 2017

Decree 601-08 Establishing the National Council on Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism

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<div>Chaired by the President of the Republic, the National Council on Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism (NCCCDM) is charged with formulating policies to prevent and mitigate GHG emissions and promote the development of programs, projects, and strategies for climate action.Ultimately, the Council is charged with ensuring compliance with climate change commitments made before the United Nations.<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;The Functions of the NCCCDM, include, among others:</div><ul><li>Supervising and evaluating the activities executed under the National Offices for Climate Change (ONCC) and for Clean Development Mechanism (ONMDL) and the financing established through the National Carbon Account</li><li>Formulating the design and execution of public policies for mitigation and adaptation to Climate Change</li><li>Developing and approving of the Project's investment strategies under the CDM</li><li>Developing scientific and technical capacities for the formulation of CDM projects in the government and the private sector</li><li>Promoting the development of mitigation projects of climate change that may generate Certified Emission Reductions, under the requirements of international agreements</li><li>Establishing the inter-institutional coordination needed to assure the implementation ofprojects that will stabilise the emissions of GHGs</li></ul><div>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;The decree also establishes the National Office for Clean Development Mechanism (ONMDL) that is the Designated National Authority for the CDM. Its functions include:</div><ul><li>Promoting and facilitating the implementation of renewable energy projects, energy efficiency, methane capture, the use of less carbon intensive fuels</li><li>Facilitating the removal of barriers for the implementation of mitigation projects</li><li>Advising the public and private sectors in the preparation of CDM projects</li><li>Identifying and promoting initiatives in terms of Emission Reduction Purchase Agreements in the international market</li><li>Promoting the creation and strengthening of local technical capacities for the preparation and development of GHG mitigation projects, following the environmental protection policy of the Dominican State</li></ul>

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