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General experiences in
Mountain Environments
Omar Samayoa
Climate Change Specialist
Inter-American Development Bank
Guatemala
Education
 Agronomist, University of San Carlos,
Guatemala
 Master Scientiae in Ecological Agriculture, in
CATIE (Tropical Research and Higher
Education Center), Costa Rica
 Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
 Design, planning, supervision and execution of
multilateral funds
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General Experience
 15 years of experience in Natural Resources
Management and Rural Development,
including 8 years of experience in climate
change. Negotiator of Forest Topics (REDD+)
in the UNFCCC during 4 years
 Project design, supervision and implementation
with Multilateral Development Bank’s funds
(small and big projects, from USD1 million to
USD250 million)
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General Experience
 Policy: Promote inclusion and participation of
private sector, civil society, goverment and
other stakeholders in developing strategies and
policy related to climate change
 Promote mainstreaming of climate change in
several sectors as Energy, Transport,
Agriculture, Forest, Education, Health, etc.
 The geografic experience has been specially in
Central America (in this moment more focused
in Guatemala)
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Location
Rainforest Alliance, 2008
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The heart of Mayan World
© Copyright 2008, Rainforest Alliance
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
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Guatemala (means land of forests)
Guatemala:
• Surface area of 108,889 km2 (10.9 million ha)
• 15 million inhabitants from 4 ethnic groups:
Maya (22) Xinca (1) Garífuna (1) and Mestiza
(60% indigenous).
• 50% in poverty condition and 20% in extreme
poverty
• Forest cover : 3,722,595 hectares = 34.2%
• Net annual deforestation 38,597 ha (1.0%) for
the 2006-2010 period.
• One of 19 “megadiverse” countries in the
world in terms of biodiversity
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Why Mountains Areas are important in Guatemala?
 More than 60% of the country are
mountains
 80% of mountain areas are crops (coffee,
maize, vegetables),
 40% of mountain areas has forest cover
(natural, plantations, coffee), multipurpouse forest (food security, water,
energy)
 70% of population lives in mountains
areas
Why Mountains Areas are important in
Guatemala?
 The most strategic actions for mitigation and
adaptation in Guatemala (and Central America)
are focused especially in mountain ecosystems
 The mountains are strategic for vulnerable
sectors like agriculture, food security and energy
(adaptation, water)
 The most important source of GHG’s is Land Use
Change (deforestation). Many forest areas are
located in mountains (mitigation to adaptation)
However….
 Public investment in mountain
areas
for
protection
and
sustainable management of forest
cover is only around 0.5-1.0% of
national
budget
(USD50
millions/year)
 Private sector (coffee) represent
an important investor to mantain
the forest cover (coffee shade)
Then….
 It is important to strength policies to
maintain and recover the forest
cover, and invest more resources
(public and private) in this areas
 Climate change is an alternative that
we use to support in this objective
1. Design/strethening policies and strategies, mainstreming
the climate change issue
Policy and
Institutional
Framework
2. Design of proposals to access climate funds
– Forest Carbon Partnership Facility –FCPF(USD 3.8 millions)
– Forest Invesment Program –FIP- (USD25
millions)
– Carbon Fund (proposal for 21 millions Ton of
CO2, could be around USD80-USD100
millions if GEI reduction emissions are
produced)
– National Apropiate Mitigation Action –NAMAfor Cook Clean Stoves (in preparation)
Guatemala Emission Reduction Program Idea
MITIGACION TO ADAPTATION
Avoided Deforestation in natural forests
•Forest Concessions (mainly local comm).
•National Parks (Lachuá, Lacandón).
•Protected Areas on the Caribbean.
Avoided deforestation and enhancement
of carbon stocks:
•Forestry incentives
•Sustainable fuelwood management16
•Value added for legal forest products.
2. Why we are doing that?
– The climate investment
evaluating the next aspects:
mechanisms
are
– Potential to reduce emissions of GHG (focused
en sectors that are producing emissions)
– Policy and institutional framework to face the
emissions
– Co-benefits (adaptacion, food security, gender,
biodiversity)
– Private sector involving
– Capacity of implementation
Some pictures of Guatemala!
Thank you!
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