Minister of the Environment and former President of COP25, Carolina Schmidt – accompanied by her colleagues from Science and Mining and Energy of Chile – met with the executive secretary of UN Convention on Climate Change and presented the roadmap, which sets out how Chile will become carbon neutral and climate resilient no later than […]
“The presidency of the COP enabled Chile – in very complex times of strong political and social polarization – to forge a broad consensus to build progress, enhancing climate ambition and action as a State policy that transcends the government of the day governments”, asserted Minister of Environment of Chile and COP25 President, Carolina Schmidt, […]
Santiago, 2 September 2021. With the message that only with gender equality and a more active and equitable participation of women in decision-making will truly effective climate action be possible in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Regional Meeting on Climate Change and Gender Equality organized by COP25, the European Union through its EUROCLIMA+ and […]
The second Conference, “Scientific Evidence and Public Policy: Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean”, will take place from September 7-10 and is organized by the Ministry of Science, the Scientific Committee on Climate Change, the European Union, and MERI Foundation. This activity will bring together leading experts from the IPCC, research centres, decision-makers […]
August 23, 2021, Santiago, Chile. While Latin America and the Caribbean accounts for less than 10% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the region is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. These are exacerbated by social and gender inequality, which increases fragility and decreases resilience. In September 2021, the Government of Chile, as […]
The Virtual Thematic Sessions of the Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week 2021 (LACCW2021) are wrapping up today, providing important momentum for a successful UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in November in Glasgow. Momentum came from more than 5,000 registered attendees joining in the conversation, including from the host Government of the Dominican Republic, […]
Ahead of this year’s UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, the President of the conference, Mr. Alok Sharma, and the President of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid in 2019, Ms. Carolina Schmidt of Chile, are calling on all countries to either follow through on commitments made under the Climate Ambition Alliance, […]
During the inauguration of the Leaders Summit on Climate convened by Joe Biden today, the Minister of the Environment of Chile and current President of COP25, Carolina Schmidt, was invited to participate. In the instance, Schmidt recalled that at COP25 in Madrid a mandate to address oceans under the UNFCCC agenda – a critical step […]
This Friday, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released its First NDC Synthesis Report, revealing that countries must redouble their efforts and submit more ambitious national climate action plans by 2021 to deliver on the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise by 2C – ideally 1.5C – by the end of the […]
With impacts from climate change threatening to be as abrupt and far-reaching in the coming years as the current pandemic, leading scientists have released a compilation of the 10 most important insights on the climate from the last year to help inform collective action on the ongoing climate crisis. In a report presented today to […]