Dominican Republic

Strategic Plan for Climate Change 2011-2030 (PECC)

Executive

Plan

Passed in 2011

The vision for 2030 set in this document is that the country will have improved the quality of life of human beings and the health of ecosystems, improved their capacities to adapt to climate change, will have reduced vulnerability to it and will have contributed to
the stabilization of greenhouse gases, without compromising their efforts to fight poverty and their development sustainable, promoting the transition to low-carbon economic growth.

It aims to reinforce awareness, education, implement coherent strategies of sustainable development and environmental protection.
The documents states its main objectives as follows:
1. Organisational strengthening and positioning at the national, regional and international levels of the National Council for Climate Change and the Clean Development Mechanism.
2. Achievement of high capacities to adapt to Change
Climate, taking into account the knowledge of local communities, through the execution of measures and actions
suggested by competent authorities and assumed by the country.
3. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, supporting economic growth in a sustainable way.

Documents

full text (PDF) (Spanish)