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Resolution s/n approving the National Adaptation Plan - Energy (NAP-E)

National Adaptation Plan - Energy

Published

The NAP-E's main purpose is to improve the adaptability of the Uruguayan energy system, strengthen its resilience, and reduce its vulnerability to climate threats. This plan acknowledges the high levels of uncertainty associated with climate change, as well as the uncertainty inherent in technological evolution, and adopts an iterative, adaptive, and continuous learning approach. This approach will establish the necessary working processes to integrate climate change adaptation across all sectors, involving all key stakeholders, including the public sector, private sector, and academia.
The overall objective of the NAP-E is to reduce the climate vulnerability of the Uruguayan energy system to ensure it continues to fulfill its essential role of providing quality energy access to the population and contributing to the country’s sustainable development.
To achieve this objective, the NAP-E is structured around five lines of action to be implemented progressively, ensuring continuous and effective adaptation: Governance, Capacity strengthening and awareness, Information management and knowledge generation, Vulnerability reduction, and Monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Resolution S/N approving the National Adaptation Plan for Climate Change and Variability in the Energy Sector  (NAP-E)

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An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

The activities of industries involved in the production, distribution, and sale of energy, including electricity, gas, and renewables.

Activities of industries that extract natural resources, such as mining, oil, and gas, for commercial use.

Extreme weather refers to events where a weather variable exceeds (or falls below) a threshold. Meaning it is significantly different from the average or usual weather pattern.

This sector involves activities to move goods and people, alongside the storage of products.

Resolution s/n approving the National Adaptation Plan - Energy (NAP-E)

Risk

Renewable energy

Economic sector

Adaptation/resilience