The project is led by the Government, through the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Developmentwith the accompaniment of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and funding from the GCF.
The Secretary of Environmental Policy in Natural Resources, Beatriz Domingorenahighlighted that “It is a collective construction that has the contribution of each of the provinces, the synthesis of participation and political and institutional decision”.
Furthermore, he explained that “It aims to care for native forests and the reduction of emissions, and with this influence what has to do with climate change”. “Resignifies our native peoples, infrastructure work and sustainable production in forestry”he concluded.
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For the secretary of Environment of the province of La Rioja and president of the Federal Council for the Environment (Cofema), Santiago Azulay, “the provinces knew how to have the political and institutional maturity to conform to this single will of the people”.
For its part, the REDD+ coordinator, serene fortunestated that “it is the first project approved by the GCF for Argentina in the forest and land use sector”, and celebrated that the country continue to invest in the conservation of its foreststhrough the Forest Law and his National Plan of Action on Forests and Climate Change.
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The ad interim representative for FAO Argentina and Uruguay, Tito Diaz Munozhighlighted that “of the 15 projects that the GCF supports, seven are developed in Latin America for a value greater than US$300 million and Argentina has the most important forest project“.
“We talk about over 7,000 families who will benefit from the draft; 2,900 local communities; the development of seven sustainable forest basins; 95 comprehensive community management plans and 92 for forests and livestock; developing strategies for fire prevention; and the strengthening local and provincial governments to advance sustainable development“, he highlighted.
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The Undersecretary of International Financial Relations for Development and Argentine representative before the Green Climate Fund, Leandro Gorgalassured that it is a “financing of non-reimbursable funds; we are not indebting the country, but we were able to channel resources that multilateral organizations have”.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Agriculture, Matthias Lestanihighlighted the livestock component of the project: “It is the most federal activity of allthat is why the Integrated Management of Livestock in Native Forests is essential in this project because where there is a cow, there are small producers and roots“.
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The Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Nation, Loneliness Stonecutterexplained that “It was a coordinated and systematized work by our teams that took into account each of the existing needs in the communities”.
Source: Ambito
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