The decree 4.586, published in the official gazette 42.246, creates the National Committee of Green Climate Fund. The Committee is a presidential commission and advisory body to the President on a permanent basis. The decree further details the Committee's composition and attributions. The decree 4.586 also appears in Official Gazette 42.217.

Decree No. 4.585 appoints the Minister of People's Power for Ecosocialism as the National Authority designated before the Green Climate Fund.

<div>This is a follow-up plan to the National Project Simon Bolivar 2007-2013 and the homeland plan 2013-2019. The plan acts as a national strategic guide for policy and governance and contains general guidelines for its implementation.<strong><br></strong><br></div><div>As the Economic and Social Development Plan of the Nation, it sets five objectives, the fifth "Historical Objective" being to contribute to the preservation of life on the planet and the salvation of the human species. This objective is refined under the following aspirations:</div><ul><li>Objective 5.1.1.1. Guarantee the sovereignty and leading participation of organized People's Power for decision-making, developing the collective construction of the ecosocialist doctrine.</li><li>Objective 5.1.1.2. Develop a comprehensive policy for the use and enjoyment of natural resources, based on respect for nature.</li><li>Objective 5.1.1.4. Develop the eco-socialist mode of production, based on a technological style and new forms of management that respect and preserve nature.</li><li>Objective 5.1.2 Promote the creation and establishment of a new ecosocialist ethic, which contributes to changing unsustainable models of production and unviable habits.</li><li>Objective 5.1.2.1. Promote and develop the vision of the rights of Mother Earth, as a representation of the rights of present and future generations.</li><li>Objective 5.1.2.1.1. Promote and promote the initiative on the universal declaration of the rights of Mother Earth.</li><li>Objective 5.1.2.4. Promote a new scheme of values ​​oriented to the respect and preservation of nature, which transforms the collective conscience.</li><li>Objective 5.1.3.7. Promote the development of sustainable and sustainable tourism activities, for the enjoyment of the population.</li></ul><div><br>Climate-related actions encouraged by the plan include the following (automatic translation of the clauses):</div><ul><li>2.7.9.5.11. Generate an interinstitutional and interdisciplinary platform for monitoring the processes and effects of climate change, in particular desertification and loss of agricultural soils, hydrographic basins, vegetation, inventory of resources and changes in the sea level curves, bodies of water, urban dynamics, land uses, among others.</li><li>5.1.1.2.2. Prepare cartography of current use, soil desertification and mapping of the impact of climate change throughout the national territory.</li><li>5.1.3.8.2. Promote special chapters of intellectual networks and social movements to promote a world current, with the forces that defend life, against climate change, associated with ecosocialism as an ideological position in the face of the capitalist devastation of the planet.</li><li>5.2.3.1.1. Generate a scientific support platform from Venezuela, using geographic and satellite systems for the purpose of environmental preservation and the fight against climate change.</li><li>3.2.6.6.2. Promote the efficient use of electrical energy through a culture of efficient consumption and the use of alternative and renewable sources.</li><li>5.4.1.1. Continue denouncing and dismantling international carbon market schemes that legitimise the purchase of pollution rights and the unpunished destruction of the planet.</li></ul>

This decree suppresses the Ministry of Popular Power for Ecosocialism, Habitat and Housing and creates the Ministry of Popular Power for Habitat and Housing and the Ministry of Popular Power for Ecosocialism and Water; which will be under the coordination of the Sectoral Vice Presidency for the Development of Territorial Socialism.<br><br>This decree states in article 10.9 that the Office of the Vice Minister or the Vice Minister of Ecosocialist Management of the Environment will have the following attributions: plan, articulate, coordinate and develop strategies, plans, programs and projects on Climate Change, including the representation of the Ministry prior approval of the highest authority, at the national and international level.

The purpose of this Law is to establish the provisions on the management of water and air quality; environmental nuisances, and the conditions under which the handling of liquid and gaseous waste must be carried out; in order to protect the health of living beings and ecosystems.&nbsp;<br><br>The law notably deals with atmospheric contamination, which includes climate change-inducing substances like carbon dioxide. In article 4, the National Executive is charged to establish the technical regulations corresponding to the types of gaseous emissions (including GHGs) and the different limits and ranges.

This is a follow-up plan to Hugo Chavez's National Project Simon Bolivar 2007-2013, and passed into law after Chavez's death. The plan acts as a national strategic guide for policy and governance until the next presidential elections in 2019. The plan is divided into five sections, the fifth of which is titled 'Preserve life on the planet and save the human species' and speaks directly to environmental protections and climate change. The plan lists 12 broad and ambitious goals in relation to climate ranging from elaborating both mitigation and adaptation plans, to a number of objectives that pressure industrialised countries to follow through on international commitments and pay their 'climate debt' in the form of reparations to less developed countries.

The plan also lists a series of national policies and associated programmes (which appear to be primary possible strategic actions) related to the energy sector, environmental conservation and transport. For those policies related to climate change, it is unclear which programs are already n execution or ready for implementation.

The national forestry policy must guide the country's forestry development, establishing the strategies, priorities, objectives and goals of national, regional and local scope, considering the ecological, geographic, population, social, cultural, economic, technological and political realities, their relationships with climate change, desertification, and drought, loss of biological diversity and deterioration of hydrographic basins. This law considers as a declaration of public order, the provisions that govern what refers to environmental education, forest culture, prevention and control of crimes against forest heritage, among others. (Article 5). It determines in its article 19 the right of citizens to be able to have access to scientific, common and traditional knowledge, allowing them to establish their own judgments about forest conservation as a component of their habitat, the forest environment in general and the role that the human being fulfills as a modifying factor of such ecosystems.<br><br>The law promotes in article 54.5 the conservation of forests as carbon sinks.

This act requires the government to promote research and development of energy efficiency technologies, allows the government to certify energy efficient technologies accordingly, and requires all sectoral planning to include energy efficiency provisions.

This general law specifies various risks faced by the country and stipulates how the government is to respond. Climate change and environmental contamination are specified as national priorities. Specifically the law states that a special commission named The National Advisory Board of Sociocultural and Technological Risk Management shall dictate, within one year of promulgation, the terms for the creation of a National Plan of Adaptation to Climate Change. Such a plan is required to include the evaluation of national and regional vulnerabilities to a changing climate, potential effects that climate change will bring to Venezuela, and strategies to adapt to climate change.

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