This document sets the government's development vision over the period 2021-2025. Under its 8th goal, the plan aims to:&nbsp;</div><ul><li>8.1. Strengthen the comprehensive and sustainable management of forests as a strategic resource, promoting the protection of areas with a forestry vocation.</li><li>8.2.Promote mitigation, adaptation and monitoring actions for climate change, with effective response measures to its impacts in harmony and balance with mother earth.</li><li>8.3.Promote life systems with a healthy, protected and balanced environment in harmony with Mother Earth.</li><li>8.4. Promote the system of protected areas, wetlands, bofedales, as part of the country's natural heritage.</li><li>8.5. Strengthen the integrated management of surface and groundwater resources to achieve water security.</li></ul><div> The plan also seeks to guarantee food security and sovereignty, with a specific focus on indigenous populations. It promotes productive capacities and potentialities, under comprehensive management of basins (water), air, soil, forest resources, flora, fauna, risk management and adaptation to climate change based on the formulation of a Plan with a Comprehensive Management approach of their Territories. The plan further calls for an increase in renewable energy capacity.

This Decree creates the Program for Monitoring and Control of Deforestation and Degradation of Forests 'Our Forests'. It establishes its components and the mechanisms for its execution, according to the Economic and Social Development Plan within the framework of Integral Development to Live Well 2016-2020 and in compliance with international commitments on climate change.

The purpose of this Supreme Decree is to declare the National Afforestation and Reforestation Program - PNFR as a strategic and national priority within the framework of the Economic and Social Development Plan, and to approve the National Implementation Strategy of the PNFR 2016-2030. The implementing strategy is attached to the text of the decree as an annex.&nbsp; Article 4 states that the National Implementation Strategy of the PNFR 2016-2030, applies to afforestation and reforestation activities throughout the territory of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, which includes protection, commercial, agro-silvo-pastoral and urban forestry plantations. The National Strategy for the Implementation of the PNFR 2016-2030 establishes the execution mechanisms of the PNFR, which will be mandatory for the central level of the State and for the autonomous territorial entities and will govern the actions to be developed by the other actors considered in this Supreme Decree.

This Supreme Decree establishes the requirements and defines the procedure for the presentation and consideration of reprogramming requirements of credit operations with the financial system of the agricultural sector affected by adverse events. It is understood as adverse events to droughts, floods, frost, hailstorms, snowfalls, pests and diseases that have affected the agricultural sector.

This Decree creates the 'Harvesting Life - Sowing Light' Program. Its purpose is to facilitate access to safe water for human consumption and sanitation; as well as to alternative and renewable sources of energy to improve living conditions in rural communities dispersed and / or vulnerable to the effects of climate change in situations of poverty or extreme poverty, including educational units and health facilities.

Supreme Decree No. 2.854 (passed on 2/08/2016) modifies this Supreme Decree and changes the name of the program to "Harvesting Water, Sowing Light'.

The purpose of this Law is to establish the Comprehensive State Planning System (SPIE), which will lead the planning process for the comprehensive development of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, within the framework of Bien Vivir. This law stipulates that the Comprehensive State Planning System incorporates risk management, climate change management and life systems management in an integrated manner, strengthening the resilience capacities of society and nature. It also states thate the Economic and Social Development Plan must contain elements of the land use planning, on which the Governing Body of the Comprehensive State Planning System prepares the general framework and the National Land Use Plan, with a focus on life systems management, risk management and climate change, in coordination with the competent entities, which should be gradually consolidated in a comprehensive development territorial planning process. According to the law, the Sectoral Plans of Integral Develpoment (PSDI) take into account the territorialisation of actions in the jurisdictions of the territorial entities or other delimitations territorial, as appropriate, with a focus on life systems management, risk management and climate change. The Territorial Plan for Comprehensive Development of the autonomous territorial entity must contain the elements of human and comprehensive development, plural economy, and land use planning, with a focus on life systems management, risk management and climate change, consolidating gradually the articulation of comprehensive development planning with land use planning, in accordance with the central level of the State.

This Law sets the institutional framework and the rules that govern risk management. This includes prevention, mitigation and recovery, and disaster or emergency assistance through disaster preparedness, alert, response and rehabilitation, caused by natural, social, technological and/or anthropic threats, as well as social, economic, physical and environmental vulnerabilities. The Law lists and defines the principles that govern risk management.

This law creates a national framework for disaster prevention and resilience as well as protocols for responding to disasters. It incorporates a climate change perspective by including measures that aim to adapt to changing climate conditions. &nbsp; The law creates the National Advisory for the Reduction of Risks and Attention to Disasters, which will include the national as well as provincial and municipal governments. The board allows for regional governments to declare a state of emergency without a federal decree. It further decentralizes responsibility to local governments to implement resiliency plans in preparation for climate and natural disasters before they occur. &nbsp; &nbsp;The law creates an initial fund of 0.15% of the national budget, amounting to BOB80m (USD11.6m) to fund humanitarian aid during aftermath of natural disasters.

This law consists of three succinct articles (i) declaring Bolivia's national interest in implementing plans, programmes and projects concerning energy efficiency; (ii) declaring the substitution of incandescent light bulbs for energy efficient fluorescent bulbs to be carried out through education campaigns; and (iii) that the executive branch in coordination with regional governments will develop education campaigns concerning efficient consumption of energy and light bulb recycling.

The Mother Earth Law is a piece of legislation that epitomises Bolivia's dedication to sustainable development, respecting the balance between human life and the natural environment, and prioritising the rights and knowledge of the country's majority indigenous population. The expressed objective of the law is to 'establish the vision and fundamentals of integral development in harmony and balance with Mother Earth to Live Well, guaranteeing the continued capacity of Mother Earth to regenerate natural systems, recuperating and strengthening local and ancestral practices, within the framework of rights, obligations and responsibilities'. &nbsp; &nbsp;In relation to climate change the law has many provisions that outline the state's vision, citizens' rights, and responsibilities. It embraces the concept of 'climate justice', defined by the ability of all Bolivian citizens to 'Live Well', especially those who are most vulnerable to climate change. It reinforces the point that some states have more of a global responsibility to respond to climate change. &nbsp; &nbsp;To encourage sustainable development of natural resources, it states that climate change trajectories should be accounted for when planning and zoning responsible land use. &nbsp; &nbsp;The law focuses on reducing the risks posed by climate change through six lines of actions:</div><ul><li>The permanent incorporation of prevention of and managed response to natural disasters into the System of Integral Planning</li><li>Risk management for the agricultural sector to prevent diminished crop yields and food insecurity</li><li>The adoption of risk management of disasters as well as adaption to climate change across state development projects; development of informational networks to issue early warnings in times of natural crisis as well as to assist the agricultural industry and indigenous communities plan according to climate conditions</li><li>Strengthening territorial management processes of sub-national governments through the incorporation of risk management and adaption to climate change perspectives</li><li>Articulation between public and private scientific research sectors to share knowledge and co-ordinate research regarding vulnerabilities related to climate change</li></ul><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;The Law defines 'Living Well' in relation to climate change and lays out the state's legal obligations. The state will develop policies, strategies and legal techniques to mitigate the effects of climate change and adapt to them through strengthening institutional capacities for the monitoring of climate with the purpose of long-term planning. The state will also encourage the recuperation of traditional indigenous practices that were historically sustainable and allowed for the natural regeneration of resources. &nbsp; &nbsp;The law also establishes the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth, within the Ministry of Environment and Water, as the state entity responsible for much of the development, overseeing and co-ordination of projects, programmes and research as it relates to climate change and the objectives of the Plurinational Plan for Climate Change. It also co-ordinates scientific monitoring of GHG emissions. The entity will operate within the framework of 'climate justice,' following the principles of Bolivia's climate change politics. &nbsp; &nbsp;The Authority will operate through three mechanisms: (1) Joint Mechanism of Mitigation and Adaptation for the Integral and Sustainable Management of Mother Earth's Forests; (2) Mitigation Mechanism to 'Living Well'; and (3) Adaptation Mechanism to 'Living Well'. &nbsp; &nbsp;The Authority is also responsible for the management of the Plurinational Fund of Mother Earth. The Fund will be financed with multilateral and bilateral aid, public money from the national government allocated to mitigation or adaptation, funds from private donors, national or international loans, and funds at the disposal of the executive branch.

Contribución Nacionalmente Determinada del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia 2021-2030, Nationally Determined Contribution from Bolivia in 2022

Bolivia. National Communication (NC). NC 3., National Communication from Bolivia in 2020

Bolivia (Plurinational State of) First NDC, Nationally Determined Contribution from Bolivia in 2016

The Mother Earth Law and Integral Development to Live Well, Law No 300

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