Webinar for journalists: The role of Latin America to increase climate action towards the COP25
Date: Monday, April 27th, 2019.Time: 08:00 – 09:00 Costa Rica time (09:00 hrs Peru /11:00 hrs from Argentina / 16:00 hrs CET)
Agenda
Welcome and introduction to the guests of the webinar. Francisco Maciel. President of the Steering Committee, LEDS LAC Platform.
Words from Patricia Espinosa. Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Words from Carlos Manuel Rodríguez. Minister, Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica (MINAE).
Round of questions. Katiana Murillo. Coordinator, LatinClima.
Continues round of questions from the journalists participating in the webinar
About the webinar
2019 is the year of climate action. The increase in the ambition of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), requires significant changes in the development patterns of important sectors of the region, which leads to an involvement of all levels of government, and the incorporation of initiatives and actions of the different non-state actors.
The signatory countries of the Paris Agreement must demonstrate their real commitment to stop global warming at the next conference of the parties (COP25), in which Latin America and the Caribbean will assume the leadership with Costa Rica and Chile in the process of negotiations. It is an opportunity for our region to make a balance of what we have advanced and where we should be beyond 2020, to facilitate even greater climate action. In this sense, journalists and communicators have an important role to put the issue on the agenda.
This webinar, organized jointly by the UNFCCC, LEDS LAC Platform, LatinClima and ConexiónCOP, will be focused on an interview of Latin American journalists to two important leaders of this process, where we are and what role the different actors of the region play in special journalists and communicators, to increase climate action towards the COP25.
The webinar will be held in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the LEDS LAC Platform Secretariat: info@ledslac.org.
About the panelists
She has been the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change since July 18, 2016. She was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, bringing more than 30 years of experience to the highest levels of international relations. on the topics of climate change, global governance, sustainable development, gender equity and human rights. She was appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations in the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.He is the Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica and was vice president of international conservation of the Mexico and Central America Program. He was also minister of the same portfolio between 2002 and 2006 and, during this time, he was a pioneer in the development of payments for ecosystem services to encourage farmers and landowners to use their land for the environmental good. This policy helped to preserve the ecosystems and contributed significantly to the Costa Rican economy. It has also participated as an instrument of global action in complementary efforts to stop unsustainable fishing practices. Its work plays a preponderant role in the conservation and progress of the country at an international level, which is visualized as an intermediary in the construction of alliances with many countries of the region and worldwide.