This was announced by Undersecretary of State for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Joel Hernandez García, at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the State Department said today in a statement.
The text indicates that the aforementioned support is coordinated with local authorities in the state of Guerrero, to provide immediate assistance to girls, boys and adolescents in communities affected by Hurricane Otis.
He points out that this fund is an initiative to implement projects that strengthen climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean and was presented just two days ago at COP28 by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and Mexico. , and it’s already running.
Speakers at the presentation agreed that Latin America and the Caribbean is the second region most affected by disasters associated with meteorological, hydrological, climatic and geophysical natural phenomena.
In this sense, they highlighted the need to strengthen the aforementioned Fund with the support of the international community.
The State Department memo notes that the event was supported by the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, with which several CELAC countries recently signed a joint statement in support of the unification of the fund.
The meeting was also chaired by the Minister of Sustainable Development of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Carlos James; Deputy Minister of Strategic Management of the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica, Carlos Isaac Pérez.
In addition, the Director of Climate Change of the Secretary of State for Natural Resources of Honduras, Wendy Rodriguez, and the Director of Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs of the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Constanza Bejarano.
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