Peru Climate Change Action
The signs of climate changeof the melting glaciers.
Peru climate change action. So he sued an energy company in germany. In recent decades accelerating glacial melt in the andes has enabled a gold rush downstream contributing to. During most of 2019 the government held a participatory consultation process on the regulation of the framework.
Peru is home to 71 percent of the worlds tropical glaciers and since 1970 glacial volume has decreased by 40 percent. The regulation of the framework law is expected to be approved at the end of this year which would make the climate change law operational as of 2020 and perus paris agreement pledge legally binding. Rising temperatures can change the way diseases behave while collateral effects from the retreat of.
Saul luciano lliuya who filed a lawsuit against a german utility company in the mountains around huaraz. From the summit of huascaran the highest mountain in earths tropics the valleys of the western andes look placid and peacefulcalming even. In tropical countries like peru health experts are keeping a close eye on climate change.
In this part of peru climate change has been a blessing but it may become a curse. To move toward this forestry climate goal peru is taking action both domestically and internationally. It includes the transposition of the 17 sustainable development goals sdgs of the united nations and opens the door to imposing regionalized target ghg mitigations actions.
In 2018 the peruvian government published its first framework law on climate change. Paradoxically on march 16th 2018 the peruvian congress passed the new climate change act cca which intends to be the first integral effort towards adapting the nation to a decarbonized society gobierno del peru 2018. Peru leads the way in climate action peru is the first country in the region to establish a framework law for climate change after signing the paris agreement the executive power today enacted the framework law for climate change.
Many areas of peru depend upon glacial melt for water for consumption irrigation and industry. The most immediately visible problem of climatic change in peru is the melting of glaciers in the andes. According to the peruvian minister of foreign affairs the ratification of the climate change agreement shows that peru supports taking action on climate change and sustainable development while seeking to eradicate poverty.