Environment starts program to train teachers and technicians on climate change issues
Santo Domingo. - The Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources together with the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), the Center for Agricultural and Forestry Development (CEDAF), with the support of the UN and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), began the "Medium-Term Training Program in Climate Transparency", with the objective to train teachers and technicians on climate change issues.
The program is carried out with the purpose of coordinating efforts to create capacities, preparing trainers and professional technicians from academic, governmental, private and civil society institutions that work in the process of preparing the National Inventories of Greenhouse Gases. Greenhouse and Climate Transparency.
Through INTEC, the Ministry of the Environment, as the body in charge of guaranteeing the environmental sustainability of the Dominican Republic, and the Center for Agricultural and Forestry Development, as the executing entity of CBIT, began the training on February 9, 2022 with the opening of the first diploma course on climate transparency, which has been held in person since the start of the pandemic and is aimed at members of the Environmental Network of Universities and other higher education academies in the country. With this training, the first training of the program was constituted, which consists of three graduates aimed at all the key sectors of the nation.
“This collaboration agreement is based on Law No. 64-00, which creates the Ministry of the Environment, establishes that the Dominican State, through this institution, will promote and encourage scientific and technological research applied to the environment and natural resources for sustainable development, through a research policy, encouraging the academy to execute training programs for specialists that promote research”, explained the Vice Minister of International Cooperation, Milagros Decamps.
Meanwhile, Armando Barrios, Vice President for Research and Linkage of INTEC, thanked the Ministry of the Environment for joining forces with INTEC for the development of training, from its Climate Change and Resilience Observatory.
Barrios considered that from the socioeconomic point of view, humanity faces three great challenges that attract challenges in terms of employment and training: climate change and its implications, the main reason for the activity; Continue working with international organizations to open equal opportunities to society and digital transformation.
Offering a few words during the activity, the executive vice president of the National Council for Climate Change, Max Puig, stressed that this training program will strengthen the country's capacity to comply with the provisions of presidential decree 541-20, which creates the National System for Measurement, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gases (MRV) to account for emissions and execute mitigation actions to guarantee targeted financing, a system that is coordinated by the CNCC, in line with the provisions of the Paris Agreement , which will facilitate the Dominican Republic's access to more and better sources of international climate financing.
The implementation of the training program will support national efforts to overcome some of the barriers that prevent the country from fulfilling its international commitments under the Paris Agreement; following the transparency guidelines agreed at COP24 in Katowice, Poland.
The opening ceremony, which was held in the Multipurpose Room of the Eduardo Latorre Postgraduate Building of INTEC, was attended by authorities from the allied institutions, as well as by a representation of the participants in the training program.
About INTEC and climate change
INTEC is one of the local universities with the most experience in developing academic offerings and research on climate change, with just over 27 initiatives in the area, at the undergraduate, postgraduate, refresher and diploma levels, as well as the only national doctoral programs in Environmental Sciences and in Energy Management for Sustainable Development.
In addition, the university is the headquarters of the Climate Change and Resilience Observatory, a center that generates and shares information for knowledge, research, planning and decision-making in the prevention of the impacts of Climate Change.