The National Council on Climate Change announced the Climate Change Bill will soon be submitted to Congress. With technical and financial support from the World Bank, the National Council on Climate Change and the Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMDL) have prepared the bill with the support of the Ministry of the Economic, Planning and Development.
CNCCMDL executive vice president Max Puig headed on Tuesday, 22 March 2022, a workshop to present the Draft Action Plan of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the period 2022-2025. NDCs are ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ and they represent the commitments of each country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. They were agreed to by countries during the Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) in Paris in 2015, the commitment known as ‘The Paris Agreement’.
“This draft bill is already in the process of consultation with all sectors of society. It is available to the Economic and Social Council (CES) and was incorporated into the Roundtables of Dialogue for Reforms coordinated by that entity, attending to the principle of transversality and high priority that measures to address climate change imply,” Puig said.
He explained that the initiative has a broad vision of the challenge represented by climate change and can be merged, taking advantage of the strengths they contain, with two other legislative initiatives that have been already submitted to the National Congress.
On the occasion of the National Technical Workshop for the Presentation and Discussion of the Draft NDC-DR 2022-2025 Action Plan, Puig recalled that this Action Plan is the result of more than a year of hard work with the country’s top specialists and consultants. He stressed that the Dominican Republic’s NDC is the fundamental national planning tool that guides the country’s climate action until 2030 and determines the national policies that will be applied through the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development.
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23 March 2022