what are the andean states doing regarding biodiversity lost in their paramos?
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What are the Andean States Doing Regarding Biodiversity Lost in Their Paramos?. Jimena Murillo Chávarro Ghent University . The Andean Community is composed of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. This are four out of the seventeen megadiverse countries in the world. . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ANDEAN COMMUNITY
What are the Andean States Doing Regarding Biodiversity Lost in
Their Paramos?
Jimena Murillo ChvarroGhent University
Biodiversity and Climate Change in the Andean Community Jimena
Murillo Chvarro - 16/09/2010Department of Public International Law
PhD Researcher.
Biodiversity and Climate Change in the Andean Community Jimena Murillo Chvarro - 16/09/2010Department of Public International Law PhD Researcher.
The Andean Community is composed of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
and Peru
This are four out of the seventeen megadiverse countries in the
world.
Institutions of the Andean Community (CAN)
Andean Presidential council (policy-maker)Commission (legislative
institutions)Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (legislative
institution)General Secretariat (executive body)Andean Parliament
(deliberative body, but it does not have legislative power yet,
only right of initiative)Court of justice of the Andean Community
(judicial power)
1999 Andean Presidential Council gave a mandate to work on the
consensus for a community policy and strategies on environmental
management and sustainable development.
Guidelines for environmental management and sustainable development
in the Andean Community. Plan for follow-up in the Johannesburg
Summit (2003 -2005).Andean Environmental Agenda
2006-2010.
Andean Environmental Agenda
Main themesBiodiversity Climate Change Water Resources
Cross-cutting issuesCapacity building for trade, environmental
and sustainable development, environmental education and
sustainable production and consumption.
Andean Environmental Agenda
BiodiversityDecision 523 on the Regional Biodiversity Strategy for
the Tropical Andean Countries (RBS)Action plans and portfolio of
projects
Climate Change. 1. the Andean Strategy on Climate Change2.
Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation, 3. Natural Disasters
Associated with Climate Change, 4. Clean Development Mechanisms,
and 5. Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency.
Andean Environmental Agenda, common areas
Biodiversity RBS established as a contribution for the MS to comply
with the obligations of the CBD.
RBS identifies Paramos as a priority ecosystem for protection.
The conditions of high diversity and extreme vulnerability
(economic, social, environmental) of the montane ecosystem call for
integrated management, using an ecosystem approach that will be
sustainable and contribute to job creation and mitigation of
poverty.
Climate change-Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation.
the objective is to determine the effects of climate change on
the Andean Plains (paramo). So, it is necessary to validate
scientific guidelines for the evaluation of climate change in
paramo and glaciers areas.
the Paramo
It is a grassland ecosystem located in the high elevations ,
between the upper forest line (about 3000 m altitude) and the
permanent snow line about 5000m. It consists of accidented, mostly
glacier formed valleys and plains with a large variety of lakes,
peat bogs and wet grasslands.
Threats to Paramo biodiversity:overgrazing, advance of
agriculture encroaching on paramo, uncontrolled fire, water demand,
ill-planned regional development programs, climate change, which
makes species and vegetation to migrate upwards.
Regional Biodiversity Strategy
Project Conservation of the Biodiversity of the Paramo in the
Northern and Central Andes (Paramo Project).
-Threats to biodiversity will be mitigated through implementation of in-situ protection and sustainable land use activities
-It applies the CBDs ecosystem approach (Decision V/6), and also address issues of agrobiodiversity and mountain biodiversity (Decision VII/27). -Finance by the GEF and executed by CONDESAN and national agencies.
-There are 9 pilots sites and 1 pristine area use as a reference
point.
Climate change: vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation
Project Monitoring the Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity of
High Mountains in the Andean Region.
This project will implement the GLORIA methodology, which offers a standard methodology to monitor in the long term the impacts of climate change on the biodiversity , in order to know the real risk and to establish conservation strategies.
Financed by the Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion International para el Desarrolllo (AECID), and executed by the General Secretariat of the CAN with the support of CONDESAN.
There are 9 possible sites, two of which coincide with site of
the Paramo Project (Piura and el Duende).
Common elements between the two projects:
The main executing organization of both projects is CONDESA, Two
identical Paramo areas (El Duende and Pacaipampa in Puira)The
project monitoring of the effect of climate change on the
biodiversity in the high mountains, will contribute to: 1. Give
information regarding the real risks, so policy maker can take
informed decisions. 2. The implementation of the RBS regarding the
development, reinforce and share of scientific research on
biodiversity.
Conclusions
Thanks to the Andean Environmental Agenda, it is possible to see a
connection between is main themes: biodiversity, climate change and
water resources.
As the CAN lacks of financial resources to implement the Andean Environmental Agenda as a whole, it decided to priorities its activities. Therefore, Paramos were chosen as a priority transboundary ecosystem, in both areas: biodiversity and Climate change.
The two studied projects show that the Andean States are working
on biodiversity and climate change issues to protect their
Paramos.
Thank you for your attention !
Biodiversity and Climate Change in the Andean Community Jimena
Murillo Chvarro - 16/09/2010Department of Public International Law
PhD Researcher.
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