📋 Tender Overview
The process of elaborating the sectoral climate adaptation plans of Brazil entered the final phase. This Monday (18), the working group responsible for consolidating the document held the first revision and finishing meeting, a phase that marks the penultimate stage before formal approval by the Interministerial Committee on Climate Change (CIM). Coordinated by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), the meeting focused on analysis and approval, at listening level and technical contribution, of seven of the 16 sectoral and theme plans, as well as the discussion and adjustment of national adaptation goals.
Family Family Farming Plans, Food and Nutrition Security, Tourism, Industry and Mining, Ocean and Coastal Zone, Water Resources and Health, which was attended by the participation of ministries and government agencies involved in the construction of sectoral policies to adapt to climate change, was a fundamental step to consolidating the work that, according to the director of the Department of Policies for Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Resilience. MMAs climate change (SMC), inmarary, must deliver to Brazil a bold and robust goals adaptation agenda.
We are advancing in the process of reviewing sectoral and thematic plans, conducted by the coordination team with support from both Ministry of Environment and Climate Change analysts and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, as well as specialized consultancies, ensuring alignment with the most current version of the national adaptation strategy. We also passed the process of public consultation and, in the end, this needed to guide a little what was being presented by the sector plans. Given this, we seek a standardization that now goes through the analysis of the working group, explained Inamara Melo.
The main objective of Mondays session was to hear comments and contributions from the federative entities involved, after the suggestions received through the public consultation. The final approval will be the responsibility of the EXECUTIVE SUBROMITE (SUBEX), the main instance of advice to the CIM, whose meeting is scheduled for September 3.
Goals and Inclusion
The meeting addressed the national goals, in which representatives of different ministries highlighted the complexity of the process of elaboration and measurement of these points, which showed the importance of interministerial and intersectoral alignments before the submission of the national strategy of adaptation to SUBEX. In this sense, deadlines, prioritization criteria and the need for greater convergence between sectoral plans and the national adaptation strategy, as well as the challenge of ensuring effective follow -up of goals.
The monitoring of indicators was another aspect addressed. In this sense, the initiative to align sectoral plans with the multiannual plan (PPA) sought to integrate monitoring systems and reduce data overload from a continuous approach process.
The representative of the National Agency of Water and Basic Sanitation (ANA) Alexandre Tofeti stressed that the cycles of revision of the climate and PPA plan are different, and the climate plan, sometimes more bold, reflect the demands of society. Still on this point, inmara Melo added that the whole process is a collective construction that seeks to ensure alignment and integration.
During the meeting, it was also emphasized the importance of contemplating vulnerable groups, such as traditional peoples and communities, and strengthening integration between different public policies to ensure greater effectiveness. It is necessary to reinforce the citation of traditional peoples and communities as a vulnerable social group. We must treat the different to the extent of their inequality, considering that they are protagonists of climate change and biodiversity conservation. Our mission is to give visibility to traditional communities with specific policies, said the coordinator of sustainability and climate actions in the Ministry of Tourism (MTur), Edson Teixeira.
There are nine sectoral plans left to be reviewed. A new agenda was scheduled for August 25, with the objective of completing the analysis. The goal is for all sectoral plans to be officially sent to SUBEX by the last week of August for final approval in early September. The launch of the Climate Adaptation Plan is scheduled for October.
