This document declares in art 1 the climate emergency of national interest. The country should urgently implement climate action measures in line with the NDC, contributing to global mitigation efforts and enabling sustainable development while reducing risk and vulnerability. Art 2 identifies the following priorities: climate governance, education, monitoring and reporting, climate finance, human rights and climate justice. The decree further approves in art 3 the update of the National Strategy against Climate Change with a vision to 2050.

This document establishes a programmatic and orientation tool for the management of the actions that are implemented in&nbsp; affected territories, taking into account their diverse realities and socio-economic and biophysical contexts and the economic, social and environmental objectives. The strategy is in line with rules on restoration of ecosystems and degraded forest lands established under Ministerial Resolution 338- 2020-MIDAGRI.&nbsp;

This decree establishes the National Sustainable Urban Transport Program, PROMOBILITY, within the scope of the Ministry of Transport. The main objective of the Program is to promote sustainable transport within cities in a way that includes the promotion of both climate change mitigation and adpationa measures. Specific objectives of the measure include: a) Contribute to improving the institutional and technical capacities of local governments for the development and management of urban transport within their competence, through the formation of human capital in the corresponding municipalities. b) Support in the planning, the formulation of studies and technical files of investments and actions in transport and urban traffic under the approach and standards indicated in paragraph 2.1 of article 2, as well as carry out the monitoring and evaluation of their execution in the framework of its objectives and purpose. c) Promote the execution of actions and investments that result from urban transport planning in local governments through their management and co-financing, within the framework of budgetary capacity.

Peru's Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change outlines the Peruvian government's official policy on gender and climate change. It recognizes that climate change does not impact people in the same way. Specifically, the policy focuses on reducing the vulnerability of women to the impacts of climate change and enhancing their adaptive capacity against them. The policy analyzes gender disparities in eight areas affected by climate change: forests, water resources, food security, energy, solid waste, education, health and well-being and disaster risk management. In then presents concrete policy recommendations in each area according to four different types of instruments: information management, capacity building, policies and management instruments and mitigation and adaptation measures. The Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change was approved by Executive Decree No. 012-2016-MINAM and published in the country's Official Gazette, El Peruano, on 24 July 2016.

The <a href="http://www.bosques.gob.pe/archivo/enbcc-ds-007-2016-minam.pdf">National Forestry and Climate Change Strategy</a> identifies the major threats to Peru's forests and lays out a strategy for countering them. 
 
The key objective is to: "Reduce the loss and degradation of forests in Peru, and therefore emissions of GHG linked to LULUCF sector and improve the resilience of the forest landscape and the people who depend on these ecosystems, with special emphasis on the Indians and peasants, to reduce their vulnerability to climate change". 
 
The strategy also aims to contribute to reaching the goal set in Peru's INDC submitted to the UNFCCC in 2015, which targets a 30 per cent reduction in projected emissions by 2030, out of which two thirds correspond to land use, land use change and forestry sector. 
 
The strategy also recognizes the importance of REDD+ in Peru and sets guidelines for preparatory actions to comply with REDD+.

The Framework Law on Climate Change, published on April 18, 2018, establishes the principles, approaches and general provisions to coordinate, articulate, design, execute, report, monitor, evaluate and disseminate public policies for the integral, participatory and transparent management of adaptation and mitigation to climate change. The law aims at reducing the vulnerability of the country to climate change, take advantage of the opportunities of low carbon growth and fulfill the international commitments assumed by the State before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with an intergenerational approach. &nbsp; &nbsp;The law establishes responsibilities for the Ministry of Environment of Peru in relation to the country's NDCs: the Ministry must submit an annual report to the Parliament which includes progress on the NDCs, ensure the compliance of the NDC targets and receive reports on sectoral NDCs progress from other ministries and public entities. Peru's NDCs are identified by the law as one of the country's instruments of climate management, with binding nature for the competent authorities and to be considered in their institutional budgets &nbsp; &nbsp;Article 2 lists a number of principles that the Peruvian State must apply with regards to climate change mitigation and adaptation: the principles of integration, transversality, subsidiarity, accountability, transparency, participation, climate governance and prevention. &nbsp; &nbsp;Article 16 details how mitigation efforts should be pursued; via carbon sequestration, and the increase of sinks, prioritizing the protection, conservation and sustainable management of forests; afforestation and reforestation; the control of the use and change of land use; sustainable transport; solid waste management; the control of gaseous and e uent emissions; the progressive change of consumption models and the energy matrix to renewable and clean energy; and energy efficiency in the various productive and extractive sectors; among other. On January 1, 2020, the government approved <a href="https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/normaslegales/decreto-supremo-que-aprueba-el-reglamento-de-la-ley-n-30754-decreto-supremo-n-013-2019-minam-1842032-2/">Supreme Decree 013-2019-MINAM</a> which regulates the dispositions of the law. It aims at reducing Peru's vulnerability to adverse effects of climate change, foster low-carbon activities, and enable the country to meet its international climate pledges.

This law promotes, regulates and supervises means of compensation for voluntary actions to conserve, recuperate and sustainably use natural ecosystems. While this legislation is primarily focussed on conservation and recuperation of the natural environment, it incorporates climate change language and in particular promotes carbon sequestration and responsible land use. 
 
The legislation defines what constitutes as a service to the natural ecosystem and stipulates how actions are to be evaluated, monitored and remunerated.

This legislation incentivises investment in renewable energy by issuing special tax write-offs. Specifically, equipment, machinery and civil engineering works associated with the installation and operation of renewable energy generation are considered to depreciate value at an accelerated rate (not exceeding 20% annually).

This legislation declares the production of electricity from renewable sources of energy a national priority. It designates the Ministry of Energy and Mines as the implementing authority, which will establish goals specifying a percentage of electricity to be generated by renewable energy sources (excluding hydroelectric and thermal energy), in maximum increments of 5%. 
 
Renewable energy sources will have priority distribution on the energy grid and are defined as: biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, and hydropower when potential yield does not surpass 20 MW. 
 
The Decree sets out a number of ways in which the government will promote technological investigation and capacity, including the development of a National Plan for the Promotion of Renewal Energies and through co-ordination between regional governments, universities and technical schools, and the National Board of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation. 
 
Lastly, the Legislative Decree modifies existing laws and decrees that regulate energy use in order to further prioritise the consumption of renewable energy.

The Law's primary objective is to incentivise the diversification of the fuel industry by promoting investment in the production of biofuels, defined as any chemical fuel type originating in agricultural products to a standard defined by the national government. The policies defined in the legislation, to be implemented by the executive branch, are: - to strengthen the scientific research system necessary to developing biofuels - to educate workers about innovative fuel technologies - to incentivise the application of biofuel technologies - to incentivise private capital investment in biofuel production - to incentivise the commercialisation of biofuels - to promote the production of biofuels in rainforest regions within the framework of sustainable development The Law outlines co-ordination with anti-drug programmes, so that national and interna-tional funds designated to The War on Drugs are used to incentivise farmers to cultivate crops designated for biofuels rather than production of coca plants. The legislation calls for the creation of a technical commission, which will create quality standards related to the production of various biofuels. The executive authority issued a decree to regulate the Law nearly two years after its promulgation. The Decree offers further legal definitions of terminology (such as biodiesel, denaturised chemical compounds etc.) as well as specifying the chemical make up of commercialised biodiesel (95% gasoline, 5% biodiesel) and ethanol fuel (92.2% gasoline, 7.8% ethanol). Additionally, the Decree identifies different funding streams to accomplish the legislative objectives established in Law No. 28054, including through the National Clean Development Mechanism, government-backed credits and funds designated for The War on Drugs.

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

Peru. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR 2. National inventory report., National Inventory Report from Peru in 2019

Peru. National Communication (NC). NC 3., National Communication from Peru in 2016

Peru First NDC (Archived), Nationally Determined Contribution from Peru in 2016

National Strategy to Combat Desertification and Drought 2016-2030, Executive Decree No. 008-2016-MINAM

Law passed

This decree adopts Peru's <a href="http://www.para-agua.net/en/biblioteca/normativa/853-peru-estrategia-nacional-de-lucha-contra-la-desertificacion-y-la-sequia-2016-2030">National Strategy to Combat Desertification and Drought 2016-2030</a> into law.

Peru's National Strategy to Combat Desertification and Drought 2016-2030 has six specific goals: (1) elaborate and update soil quality baselines to include the causes and consequences of desertification, land degradation and drought based on scientific and technological guidelines, (2) strengthen regulatory frameworks related to desertification, land degradation and drought in affected areas, (3) develop synergistic, multisectoral, intrasectoral, regional and local plans, programs and projects to reduce desertification, land degradation and the impact of drought in affected areas, (4) raise awareness of the problem and actions to mitigate desertification, land degradation and the impact of drought through the media, (5) strengthen management capacities of desertification, land degradation and drought in various interest groups on a scientific-technological basis, and (6) develop scientific research or technological innovations that help sustainable land management by taking advantage of traditional knowledge.

There is a specific subsection (1.5.2) dedicated to the relationship between climate change and desertification in Peru.

National Strategy to Combat Desertification and Drought 2016-2030, Executive Decree No. 008-2016-MINAM

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