Cuba makes strides in climate management

HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 29 (ACN) Cuba reported its progress regarding the updating of its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for adaptation to climate change at a meeting between representatives A meeting of representatives of organizations, cooperation agencies and the United Nations System (UNS).

According to the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), the participants described details of each phase of the action plan, including its targeted sectors, timetables, and the government approval process.

Reference was made to the Paris Agreement provision that “each Party shall communicate a nationally determined contribution every five years...” as part of a country's obligations to the international community in matters of climate change.

In 2020, Cuba updated its NDC and included five mitigation and 13 adaptation benefits—related to renewable energy and energy efficiency, transport, forest management, and cattle raising—and the new version will be prepared before February 10, 2025 and submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in force since March 21, 1994.

The NDC takes into account the experiences in the implementation of the 2020 NDC and the deployment of the State Plan to tackle climate change, known as Tarea Vida (Task Life).

CITMA first deputy minister José Fidel Santana Núñez, who is the Designated National Authority to the Green Climate Fund, took part in the debates attended by representatives of cooperation agencies of donor countries and the United Nations, as well as by officials in charge of cooperation from the embassies of Norway, Italy and France.