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CCLW national policies

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Laws Africa

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The primary objective of the law is to provide an immediate and co-ordinated response to climate change, in part through the establishment of the National Council of Climate Change presided over by the President of the Republic, and the development of a national adaptation and mitigation plan, as well as institutional adaptation and mitigation strategies in all public institutions. The law also delegates responsibility to the various governmental agencies to develop and implement climate change policies within specific areas that will ultimately address: carbon emissions generated by land use and the energy sector; the creation of a carbon market; increasing public awareness and participation; public financing; and development of climate-related policies. It further establishes the national climate change information system and the national climate change fund to finance projects that address risk management, adaptation and/or mitigation (with 80% of the fund dedicated to risk and vulnerability management and adaptation). The law finally asks the government to adopt regulation of carbon emissions from public and private activities in the transport sector. It also evokes the creation of a national energy plan that focuses on the development of renewable energy.

Framework law to regulate reduction of vulnerability, mandatory adaptation to the effects of climate change, and the mitigation of greenhouse gas effects (Decree of the Congress 7-2013)

This Action Plan was adopted by the government in 2016 in application of the 2013 framework law (Congressional Decree 7-2013). The Plan lists the mitigation and adaptation priorities that should be dealt with by public and private institutions. Adaptation efforts should prioritise human health, coastal marine zones, small-scale agriculture, forests, infrastructure and water resources. Mitigation efforts should focus on energy, industrial processes, the agroindustrial sector, land use and scrap.

National Action Plan for Climate Change

Guatemala Framework Law on Climate Change 

Law passed

Unconditional reduction of GHG by 11.2% and conditional reduction of 22.6 by 2030 against a 2005 baseline

National Action Plan for Climate Change

Main document

Targets

Timeline

Note

About the Guatemala Framework Law on Climate Change