Suriname

Responses

Adaptation Mitigation

Sectors

Buildings Energy LULUCF Transport

Instruments

Direct Investment

Nature based solutions and ecosystem restoration

Governance

Capacity building

Information

Research & Development, knowledge generation

Keywords

Adaptation Institutions / Administrative Arrangements Research And Development Energy Supply Energy Demand Redd+ And Lulucf Transport

National Climate Change Policy, Strategy and Action Plan

Executive

Plan

Strategy

Adaptation Framework

Mitigation Framework

Passed in 2015

The National Climate Change Policy, Strategy and Action Plan sets the government's vision on how to tackle mitigation and adaptation actions over the period 2014-2021. It sets the official line to adopt on climate change, exposes the country's weaknesses to address in priority, and defines sectoral strategies accordingly.

Specific measures that the document establishes include promoting energy efficiency in the housing sector, develop renewable energy production and use, enhance land use management with respect to carbon sinks, increase the share of biofuels to 30 per cent by 2025 in the transport sector, develop comprehensive national research to design adequate mitigation and adaptation policies, and upgrade the institutional and legal framework according to sustainable development goals.

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