Paraguay

Decree No. 3369 establishes Paraguay’s first formal legal framework for carbon market activities by implementing and regulating <a href="https://app.climatepolicyradar.org/document/law-7190-2023-of-carbon-credits-ley-no-7190-de-los-creditos-de-carbono_7748" target="_self"><ins>Law 7190/23</ins></a>,, as mandated in Chapter V, Article 25 of the law.
The Decree aligns Paraguay’s carbon market regulations with the Paris Agreement, particularly Article 6, which encourages international co-operation to support the achievement of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) through mitigation and adaptation measures. It also aligns with constitutional principles set out in Article 7, which recognises the right of every person “to live in a healthy and ecologically balanced environment”, and Article 8, which establishes that “activities likely to cause environmental alteration shall be regulated by law”.
The Decree creates the Carbon Markets Directorate (DMC), responsible for implementing, supervising, and regulating the carbon market system in Paraguay. It also outlines the foundational rules for the Carbon Credit Registry (created by Law 7190/23), ensuring transparency and traceability through measurable and verifiable data related to carbon credits, Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs), and NDC compliance projections.

This document aims to foster the production and use of hydrogen, especially in the transport sector.

This strategy was approved by Resolution 293/2019. It aims to enable the long-term sustainable development of forests in Paraguay.

The updated National Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management of Paraguay becomes the main umbrella for the National Emergency Secretariat, as well as for government institutions, subnational governments, civil society, academia and the private sector, to generate policies, plans, programmes, projects and strategies in accordance with their own realities, which together lead Paraguay to sustainable, safe and resilient development.

The guidelines updated in this document respond to new global commitments, national regulatory frameworks and the national reality, based on the national interest materialised through the inclusion of disaster risk reduction and management in the political agenda as an indispensable component of the country's strategic sustainable development and under the premises of participation without exclusion, social empowerment, intersectoral action and interculturality.
The broad debate generated 4 strategic pillars that include the guidelines for actions to be achieved by the Policy. All strategic pillars are fundamental and equal in importance, and must be addressed and considered simultaneously:
Strategic Pillar 1: Institutional Capacity Building
Strategic Pillar 2: Financial
Strategic Pillar 3: Education, Communication and Citizen Participation
Strategic Pillar 4: Knowledge Management and Technology.

This decree implements the country's energy policy. The strategic vision of the policy is to respond satisfactorily to the population and productive sectors energy needs, while respecting socio-environmental and efficiency criteria. One of the main objective of the policy is to use hydro, biomass and other renewable resources to attend the demand. The document lists a number of action plan, such as the action plan for energy efficiency, to be implemented in order to reach Paraguay's overarching energy goals.

This law aims to regulate the protection, recovery and improvement of the native forest in the Eastern Region so that the forest fulfils its environmental, social and economic functions, contributing to the improvement of the quality of life of the inhabitants of the country.&nbsp;

Law no. 5875/17 on Climate Change establishes a framework in Paraguay for mitigation and adaptation, in line with its adhesion to the Paris Agreement and the National Development Plan. It aims in particular to implement actions that reduce the country's vulnerabilities to climate change and actions which allow to reduce its greenhouse gases emissions. These actions will be developed in a National Plan for Climate Change which will detail and actualise the dedicated policies. The law further mandates the creation of a number of institutions such as the National Commission on Climate Change as a cross-institutional body in charge of setting up and updating the country's policy strategies and a National Directorate on Climate Change as the executive body in charge of applying climate change policies. The law also establishes the Climate Change Fund that will be under managed by the executive's Environment Secretariat. More broadly, the Secretariat will oversee public and private funds directed towards mitigation and adaptation. This law modifies Decree no. 14.943/01, implementing the National Climate Change Program.

This law aims at protecting the air and the atmosphere, through the prevention and regulation of quemical pollution. It follows the principles of precaution, prevention and compensation. GHG gases are comprised within the regulative framework set out by this law. The document further defines the means of protecting the air and atmosphere.

This law aims at promoting jobs and energy alternatives, protecting consumer interests, protecting the environment, and promote energy conservation through the promotion of natural gas. It also seeks to identify solutions adequate to each region in Paraguay. A favourable fiscal regime for natural gas is instituted.

This law promotes the conservation, protection, recovery and sustainable development of the country's biological diversity and natural resources, through the fair, timely and adequate valuation and remuneration of environmental services. Article 2 lists carbon absorption as one of the environmental services in scope.

Paraguay 2024 Biennial Transparency Report. BTR1

Paraguay National Inventory Report submitted in 2024

Paraguay National Communication. NC4

Paraguay National inventory report submitted in 2022.

Decrease in 20% the share of fossil fuels in annual total energy use by 2030 against a 2013 baseline

100% of solid biomass products to be used with certification at the sixth year of regulation

Increase in 60% the share of renewables in annual total energy use by 2030 against a 2013 baseline

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