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URUGUAY Proposed projects for financing

_________________________ Ministry of
Housing, Land Planning and Environment-
MVOTMA National Environment Directorate-
DINAMA Climate Change Unit UCC

March 2011 Antigua y Barbuda
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OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION

• 1- National Circumstances and status of
  National Communications
• 2- Institutional Arrangements.
• 3- National GHG emissions
• 5- Projects identified from the SNC
• 6- Third National Communication and National
  Plan on Climate Change Development of Uruguays
  Portfolio of Adaptation and Mitigation Projects
  for Financing
• 7- Key Remarks and lessons learned

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URUGUAY I NATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• MAIN FEATURES
• Continental territory 176.215 km2
• Territorial sea 140.000 km2.
• Population 3.241.003
• Climate located in the temperate zone, with
  temperatures of 17.5C, humidity of 75 and
  annual accumulated rainfalls of 1,300 mm.
• Most adverse climate phenomena
  hydrometeorological events such as droughts,
  floods, frosts, heat waves.
• In the last ten years, the country has
  experienced extreme floods and droughts,
  increasing both in intensity and frequency as
  compared to historical records.

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URUGUAY I NATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• The agriculture sector is very important in the
  economy of the country. Livestock, crops and
  forestry are the main sources for exports.
• The tourism is also important, mainly in the
  coastal zone.
• Primary energy supply depends on hydropower and
  oil. Energy from wind and biomass waste sources
  were introduced to the power grid in 2007 as part
  of the implementation of the national energy
  policy 2005-2030.

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URUGUAY I INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

• UNFCCC Ratification1994. Kyoto Protocol
  Ratification 2000.
• Ministry of Housing, Land Planning and
  Environment (MVOTMA) created in 1990 and
  designated as National Authority on Climate
  Change in 1990.
• COTAMA Technical Advisory Committee on
  Environment, formed by gov. agencies and
  Ministries, private sector, NGOs.
• May 2009 National System to Respond to Climate
  Change and Variability (SNRCC) was created.
• February 2010 National Plan on Climate Change
  (PNRCC) was presented

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URUGUAY - NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

• 1997. Initial National Communication
• 2004. Second National Communication.
• 2010. Third National Communication.

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NATIONAL EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES

• Total of national emissions
• 36.280 kton CO2 equiv.
• Total of national removals
• -10.348 kton CO2 equiv.
• Agriculture sector accounted for 80 of the
  2004 national emissions expressed in equivalent
  CO2.
• CH4 46
• N2O 34
• Energy sector accounted for 12 of the 2004
  national emissions expressed in CO2 eq.
• Waste sector accounted for 3

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Uruguay projects identified from the measures
inclduded in the SNC

• Second National Communication identified a
  number of measures of mitigation and adaptation
  and its associated costs of implementation
• Mitigation priority to renewable energies in
  the context of the National Energy Policy
  2005-2030
• PROJECTS PROPOSED FOR FINANCING
• Energy Efficiency Project
• Wind Energy Programme
• Electricity Production from Biomass
• Adaptation priority to coastal zones and
  agriculture
• PROJECTS IDENTIFIED FOR FINANCING
• Implementation of adaptation measures in the
  coastal zone
• Adaptation in the agriculture sector

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Uruguay projects identified from the measures
inclduded in the SNC

• Energy Efficiency Project
• Submitted to GEF and approved. (2005)
• Objective to increase efficiency in the use of
  energy, reduce dependence of Uruguays economy
  on electricity and fossil fuels and to reduce
  emissions from the energy sector
• USD 6.875.000 (GEF) and USD 6.700.000 (Uruguay
  Government)
• Reduction of 559.000 ton CO2
• Wind Energy Programme
• Submitted to GEF and approved.
• Objective to contribute to the removal of
• barriers for the development of commercially
• viable wind energy investments in the
• country , the establishment of a 5 MW
• showcase as a basis for replication and to
• the reduction of GHG emissions,
• GEF USD 950.000
• UNDP (TRAC) USD 35.000
• Government USD 5.975.000

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• Electricity Production from Biomass in Uruguay
• Submitted to GEF and approved. (2010)
• Objective To promote the integration of
  biomass-based power generators into the national
  electricity grid by the development and
  implementation of scenarios for the sustainable,
  large-scale exploitation of domestic forestry
  and agro industry biomass resources, including
  the installation of one biomass-based electricity
  generator (5 MW)
• 320,000 tons CO2 over a 20-year lifetime period
  (direct) and 1,900,000 tons of CO2 (indirect)
• USD 950.000 (GEF)
• USD 775.000 (Uruguay Government)
• USD 25.000 UNDP CO (TRAC)
• USD 6.750.000 (Private sector)

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• Implementation of pilot adaptation measures in
  Uruguay coastal areas
• Submitted to GEF (SPA) and approved (2007)
• Objective to contribute to the establishment of
  policies and practices on land planning and
  coastal management that increase coastal
  ecosystems resilience to climate change.
• GEF USD 975,000
• Uruguay Gov. USD 1,730,000
• Spain Gov. USD 24,000
• UNDP BCPR USD 170,000
• Local Gov. (Canelones)
• USD 1, 000,000

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• Adaptation in the agriculture sector in Uruguay
• First version prepared for submission to SCCF in
  2006, never submitted (waiting for replenishment
  of the SCCF)
• Concept note on a new version of the project was
  submitted to the AF through our National
  Implementing Entity under the AF, approved March
  2011

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THIRD NATIONAL COMMUNICATION
NATIONAL PLAN ON CLIMATE CHANGE It s recognized
by the Gov. of Uruguay as the tool to integrate
climate change in the countrys long term
development strategy. It contains the national
strategic lines of action on climate change, and
the measures for mitigation, adaptation and
cross-cutting issues. Although national resources
have been committed to its implementation, they
are not enough, and external financial assistance
is needed. During 2011, a project portfolio
based on these measures is being developed, to
help the country to get the support needed
(probably to be reported in the 4th Nat Com.)

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• Key remarks and Lessons Learned
• Include plans/policies/measures under
  implementation as well as envisaged ones in NC.
• Including projects ideas as well as envisaged
  plans/programmes in the NC is not a guarantee for
  getting the financial resources needed, but it
  could help to get support.
• Including those project ideas/plans/programmes is
  just the first strategic step for the process of
  getting support. The projects will not get the
  financing just for being reported in the NC,
  further steps will be needed, but we think that
  it facilitates the future submissions of these
  projects to financing entities.
• The current process of developing the project
  portfolio is based on the prioritization of the
  measures from the National Plan, that was done
  through a stakeholder consultation to define the
  short term priorities. This prioritization was
  reported in the TCN as a first approximation to
  the project portfolio for financing.

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• THANK YOU
• March 2010
• Climate Change Unit
• DINAMA MVOTMA
• URUGUAY
• www.cambioclimatico.gub.uy