Climate change in Uruguay
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Climate change in Uruguay describes the effects of climate change in Uruguay. As the result of global temperature increases, Uruguay is expected to have temperature increases of 3 °C by about 2100 and there is expected increases in precipitation.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=En Uruguay "el cambio climático ya está ocurriendo" |url=http://www.todoelcampo.com.uy/en-uruguay-el-cambio-climatico-ya-esta-ocurriendo-?nid=39781 |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=Todo el campo - Noticias agropecuarias del Uruguay |language=es }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Increases of climate rain in Uruguay and Argentina during 2018 was estimated by the World Meteorological organization to have caused $2.5 billion in damage.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=4 consecuencias del cambio climático que ya se pueden ver en América Latina |url=https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/4-consecuencias-del-cambio-climatico-que-ya-se-pueden-ver-en-america-latina-2019123214713 |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=El Observador}}
The main sources of carbon emissions in Uruguay are food production and transport.{{Cite web |title=Balance Energético Nacional - Emisiones de {{CO2}} por sector - Catálogo de Datos Abiertos |url=https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/dataset/miem-emisiones-de-co2-por-sector |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=catalogodatos.gub.uy |language=es}} When compared to the rest of the world, Uruguay only contributes 0.05% of the total global emissions.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/10.pdf#page=33 |title=Conference of the Parties. Report of the Conference of the Parties on its twenty-first session, held in Paris from 30 November to 13 December 2015 |publisher= |year= |isbn= |editor-last=UNFCCC |location= |page= |language=en |chapter= |author-link= |access-date=14 November 2020}} In 2017, Uruguay identified 106 methods of reducing emissions as part of their Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Climate Agreement.{{Cite web |title=Climate Promise |url=https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-ambiente/institucional/informacion-gestion/memorias-anuales/climate-promise |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=Ministerio de Ambiente |language=es}}{{Cite web |title=Contribución Determinada a Nivel Nacional |url=https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-ambiente/politicas-y-gestion/contribucion-determinada-nivel-nacional |access-date=2020-11-15 |website=Ministerio de Ambiente |language=es}} Activities include reductions of emissions across food and grain production, increases of native and reforested land, restoration of bogland and grasslands as carbon sinks.{{Cite web |title=Uruguay |url=https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/NDCStaging/pages/Party.aspx?party=URY |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=www4.unfccc.int}} The Nationally Determined Contribution began a process of revision in 2020 with the objective to provide greater ambition in 2022.
To pursue climate policy, the country created on the 20th of May 2009, the Sistema Nacional de Respuesta al Cambio Climático y variabilidad (SNRCC) through directive 238/09.{{Cite web |title=Decreto N° 238/009 |url=https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/decretos/238-2009- |access-date=2021-07-31 |website=www.impo.com.uy}} The SNRCC produces reportes from monitoring and verification of the work to achieve the Nationally Determined Contribution and other policies.
In 2015, a law transformed that organization into a Secretariat for Environment, Water and Climate change. The Secretariat is charged with coordinating public policy across the three areas.{{Cite web |title=Decreto N° 172/016 |url=https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/decretos/172-2016?verreferencias=norma |access-date=2021-08-03 |website=www.impo.com.uy}} The secretary participates in the committee of other actors in the National Environmental System (in Spanish, Sistema Nacional Ambiental (SNA)). Internationally, Uruguay is part of the Kyoto Protocol, Paris Accorde and the Doha Amendment. The private sector in Uruguay has committed to at least 15 actions to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to the NAZCA portal.{{Cite web |title=NAZCA 2019 |url=https://climateaction.unfccc.int/views/country.html?country=UY |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=climateaction.unfccc.int}} Uruguay is also a member of the International Renewable Energy Agency.{{Cite web |title=IRENA Membership |url=https://www.irena.org/irenamembership |access-date=2020-11-14 |website=/irenamembership |language=en}}
Emissions inventory
Environmental impacts
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| caption2 = 2071–2100 map under the most intense climate change scenario. Mid-range scenarios are currently considered more likely{{cite journal|last1=Hausfather|first1=Zeke|last2=Peters|first2=Glen|title=Emissions – the 'business as usual' story is misleading|journal=Nature|date=29 January 2020|volume=577|issue=7792|pages=618–20|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00177-3|pmid=31996825|bibcode=2020Natur.577..618H|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal |last1=Schuur |first1=Edward A.G. |last2=Abbott |first2=Benjamin W. |last3=Commane |first3=Roisin |last4=Ernakovich |first4=Jessica |last5=Euskirchen |first5=Eugenie |last6=Hugelius |first6=Gustaf |last7=Grosse |first7=Guido |last8=Jones |first8=Miriam |last9=Koven |first9=Charlie |last10=Leshyk |first10=Victor |last11=Lawrence |first11=David |last12=Loranty |first12=Michael M. |last13=Mauritz |first13=Marguerite |last14=Olefeldt |first14=David |last15=Natali |first15=Susan |last16=Rodenhizer |first16=Heidi |last17=Salmon |first17=Verity |last18=Schädel |first18=Christina |last19=Strauss |first19=Jens |last20=Treat |first20=Claire |last21=Turetsky |first21=Merritt |year=2022 |title=Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic |journal=Annual Review of Environment and Resources |volume=47 |pages=343–371 |doi=10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011847 |quote="Medium-range estimates of Arctic carbon emissions could result from moderate climate emission mitigation policies that keep global warming below 3°C (e.g., RCP4.5). This global warming level most closely matches country emissions reduction pledges made for the Paris Climate Agreement..." |doi-access=free |url=https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/57387/1/Schuur_2022.pdf }}{{Cite web |last=Phiddian |first=Ellen |date=5 April 2022 |title=Explainer: IPCC Scenarios |url=https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climate/explainer-ipcc-scenarios/ |website=Cosmos |access-date=30 September 2023 |quote="The IPCC doesn’t make projections about which of these scenarios is more likely, but other researchers and modellers can. The Australian Academy of Science, for instance, released a report last year stating that our current emissions trajectory had us headed for a 3°C warmer world, roughly in line with the middle scenario. Climate Action Tracker predicts 2.5 to 2.9°C of warming based on current policies and action, with pledges and government agreements taking this to 2.1°C. |archive-date=20 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920224129/https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climate/explainer-ipcc-scenarios/ |url-status=live }}
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Mitigation and adaptation methods
The national system for managing public policy for climate change is the Sistema Nacional de Respuesta al Cambio Climático y variabilidad (SNRCC), the Sistema Nacional Ambiental, the Gabinete Nacional Ambiental and the Secretaría Nacional de Ambiente, Agua y Cambio Climático. In 2010 the parties created the National Climate Change Response Plan (Plan Nacional de Respuesta al Cambio Climático).In 2017, they extended and adapted the plan into a national policy for implementing their Nationally Determined Contribution .
Climate finance
For the period of 2015–2021, Uruguay received approximately US$1,153,103,861.08 of climate finance focused on funding mitigation in agriculture, urban mobility and other environmental institutions and programs.
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Society and culture
In 2020, a survey of 1500 people in Uruguay, found that 90% of Uruguayans knew climate change was a problem and important for Uruguay to address .{{Cite web |title=Percepción social del cambio climático en Uruguay |url=https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-ambiente/comunicacion/noticias/percepcion-social-del-cambio-climatico-uruguay |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=Ministerio de Ambiente |language=es}}
See also
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