Paraguay

National Climate Change Policy

Executive

Policy

Adaptation Framework

Mitigation Framework

Passed in 2012

This document set the country's climate change mitigation and adaptation policy. It aims to install the topic of Climate Change at the national level and to promote the implementation of articulated measures that are coherent with the priorities of national development and the consolidation of a social state of law, and that point to the sustainability of the system. Gender, cultural diversity and the state of law are established as three transversal priorities.

The Policy notably seeks to 1) strengthen transversal and specific institutional capabilities, 2) promote the search and obtain funding sources to face climate risks, 3) improve education and raise public awareness, 4) improve technology and human capacities, and 5) reduce greenhouse gases emissions based on general and sectoral objectives.

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