Observatorio de Áreas Protegidas y Cambio Climático de la Amazonia, herramienta que permitirá consolidar y organizar información para el manejo y la toma de decisiones relacionadas con las áreas protegidas del bioma amazónico
Peru will launch the first Observatory for Amazon Protected Areas and Climate Change —a tool to consolidate and organize information on the management and implementation of decisions relevant to protected areas in the Amazon biome.
The observatory was established through Redparques —a technical cooperation network of regional protected areas led by the National Service of Natural Protected Areas, or Sernanp— and with the support of Amazon Vision: Protected Areas, Natural Solution to Climate Change project (NASCC) run by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
This new observatory is one of the achievements of the regional initiative Amazon Vision, which is intended to strengthen the role of protected areas in response to climate change.
One of the project’s main achievements so far is the Redparques Declaration on Climate Change and Protected Areas, presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which has been signed by 18 Latin American countries, including nine Amazon nations, with Peru at the top.
In this Declaration, signatory countries have committed to exploring alternatives to articulate the role of Protected Areas part of the strategies to cope with climate change.
Fulfilled by information from several organizations in Amazon countries, the observatory will provide access to different information related to protected areas at the regional level.
An easy-to-use website will be available for those in search of publications, news, photographs, figures and other materials related to protected areas and climate change in the Amazon at the national and regional level.
The launching ceremony will take place at Sonesta Hotel in the Lima district of San Isidro.
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Published: 8/24/2016