National Climate Change Policy (PNCC), 2019
- The policy is structured in eight parts: context, elaboration process, vision, guiding principles, objectives, policy pillars and measures, implementation and financing, and monitoring and evaluation.
- The preface states that agricultural productivity keeps falling, water-resource management grows harder and vector-borne disease prevalence tends to rise.
- It records that major hurricanes cause damage reaching alarming proportions of national GDP, and that the emerging tourism sector spends its scarce resources on repairing that damage.
- It makes the equity argument that Haiti contributes very little to the phenomenon that threatens it.
- It was prepared following the Paris Agreement, through a process the ministry describes as highly participatory.
- It sits above the 2015 INDC and the 2006 PANA and is the reference for the ministry's 2022 draft climate legislation.
Haiti's National Climate Change Policy, issued by the Ministry of Environment in 2019 following the impetus of the Paris Agreement, through a process the preface describes as highly participatory.
The document runs context, elaboration process, vision, guiding principles, objectives, policy pillars and measures, implementation and financing, and monitoring and evaluation. The preface states the economic case directly: agricultural productivity keeps falling, water-resource management grows harder, vector-borne disease prevalence tends to rise, and the emerging tourism sector spends its scarce resources on repairing damage from frequent climatic hazards, with major hurricanes causing damage reaching alarming proportions of national GDP. It also makes the equity point that Haiti contributes very little to the phenomenon that threatens it.
The PNCC is the standing policy framework above the 2015 INDC and the 2006 adaptation programme, and it is the reference the ministry's 2022 draft climate legislation works from.
How to cite
Ministry of the Environment (MDE), National Climate Change Policy (PNCC), 2019, https://www.ecolex.org/
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- Government of Haiti