Perspectives of Climate Ambition from the Chilean Presidency of COP 25
Date: Tuesday, October 15th, 2019.Time: 09:00 – 10:30 am (Time in Costa Rica, CST)Verify the time according to your location: http://bit.ly/35n4cRp
Agenda
Welcome. Aida Figari. Technical expert of the LEDS LAC Secretariat, Libélula Perú.
COP 25 in Chile: increasing ambition. Cristián Retamal. Advisor in negotiation and contents, Chilean Presidency COP 25. Download presentation.
Incorporation of the concepts of ambition in the NDC: perspectives from Chile. Jenny Mager. Chief of Mitigation and Inventories of Climate Pollutants, Ministry of the Environment of Chile. Download presentation.
About the webinar
After the September Climate Summit in New York and the pre-COP in Costa Rica, experts from the Chilean Presidency COP 25 will be sharing impressions and different perspectives for the increase of ambition in the UNFCCC regime ahead of the COP in Chile next December.
The first part of the webinar will deal with the reference elements that determine climate ambition and expectations from the incoming COP 25 Presidency to promote greater ambition for 2020 when countries are called upon to renew or update their NDCs.
The second part of the webinar will present the work developed by the Government of Chile to update its NDC with greater ambition. The webinar will be held in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the LAC LEDS Platform Secretariat: info@ledslac.org.
About the panelists
Industrial Civil Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with specialization in environmental engineering and sociology studies. He also holds an MSc from VU University Amsterdam in Holland. He focuses his work on the transformations and mobilization of efforts that Anthropocene and climate change entail. He closely follows the United Nations international negotiation process on climate change (UNFCCC) and the Sustainable Development Goals. He is particularly interested in the articulation of the global energy system, the governance of the international climate regime, and the geopolitical dynamics associated with the transition to post-carbon, resilient and inclusive socio-economic systems. During 2015 he worked with the German think tank Climate Analytics supporting the formulation of (I)NDCs from LDCs and SIDS countries in the run-up to COP 21. He was an advisor to the AILAC negotiating group in the discussion of the Paris Agreement Work Programme until COP 24 last December in Katowice, Poland. He is currently an advisor to the Chilean Presidency COP 25.She is a Civil Engineer in Geography from the University of Santiago de Chile and holds a master’s degree in Public Administration and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York. She has more than 10 years of experience in the public and environmental sectors. Since 2010 she is part of the Climate Change Office of the Ministry of the Environment, where she currently serves as head of the area of mitigation and inventories. Jenny is primarily in charge of MRV and climate transparency issues, coordinating the preparation of the biennial update reports. She is currently leading the process of updating the mitigation component of Chile’s NDC and the elaboration of the long-term climate strategy.