"Mobilizing Latin American and Caribbean actors with a view to spurring enhanced national ambition to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals"
The Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week 2018 (20-23 August, in Montevideo, Uruguay) will be a key international summit to drive climate action forward across the region. LACCW will be an umbrella for a series of climate-related events focused on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) implementation - challenges and opportunities, the Sustainable Development Goals, and Global Climate Action.
LACCW will also be the premier knowledge sharing platform for discussing and highlighting strategies for accelerating global climate action, including by further aligning finance flows in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emission and climate-resilient development for the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Governments, private sector and other non-state stakeholders will be in attendance.
LACCW 2018 will include a high-level segment (August 22, 2018), hosted by the government of Uruguay, to address matters in the international agenda of the climate action, which are of political important to Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), jointly with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is co-organizing a workshop on Health and Climate Action, during LACCW (August 23, 2018). This workshop aims to provide an overview of the effects of climate change on health, with a focus on SIDS in the Caribbean region; take stock of the status and challenges of the health sector in participating in National Adaptation Plans and Nationally Determined Contributions; and showcase PAHO's planned actions on climate change and health, with regards to mitigation and adaptation.
For the first time, the health sector will be represented at a Climate Week. The Hon. Molwyn Joseph, Minister of Health and the Environment, Antigua and Barbuda, is scheduled to attend the high-level segment, discussing the synergies between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, alongside Ministers of Environment from Central and South America. The Hon. Minister Molwyn Joseph will also participate in the PAHO-UNFCCC workshop on Health and Climate Action.
The event is open and free of cost.
