World Bank will grant US$ loan 330 million for reforms of environmental policies
The World Bank (VM) announced that it will approve this week a programmatic loan of reforms of environmental policies by 330 million dollars, that will be destined to support the Ministry of the Atmosphere (Minam) and to improve the governability or environmental management in key sectors like mining, biodiversity, urban transport and fishes. The sectorial manager of sustainable development of the World Bank, Michel Kerf, maintained that additionally a project of adaptation to the impact of the diminution of glaciers in tropical the $andes finances.
“The initiative looks for to contribute to fortify the local ecosystems and the economies particularly affected by the accelerated backward movement of tropical glaciers and to measure the costs and benefits of alternative actions of adaptation.”
It added that the World Bank also finances a project of participating management of the protected natural areas, that it has as an aim to contribute to the conservation of the biodiversity in Peru and to promote the participation of the civil society and the sector deprived in the management of the protected areas.
In addition, some studies like the referred one to the evaluation of the impacts of the climatic change in the mountainous hydrology are in process.
“This study is going to serve as consumption for another work in which the viability of the hydroelectric investments in Peru is evaluated.”
It showed that also it is realised a work of technical attendance and investigation on the vulnerability of the agricultural systems to the climatic change and a project by which they will be to measure the social impacts of the climatic change in the country.
The minister of the Atmosphere, Antonio Brack, said that the loan of the VM implies that Peru takes certain measures in order to implement political and action to mitigate the climatic change.
It confirmed that Germany or has granted to the country seven million Euros to at least implement the plan for the conservation of 54 million hectares of forests, which or is a national policy.
In addition, in this week a cheap loan of Japan for the conservation of forests will be decided extremely, and will be very important to work with the native and native communities of the forest in order to conserve its forests, to handle them suitably and to see all the system of compensations.
The loan that is transacted is of 220 million dollars by ten years, 20 annual million in average, to conserve forests, to refuel sanitary and to have the solid residues suitably, expressed the minister.
It maintained that Peru is one of the most deficient countries at world-wide level in the treatment of the solid residues and if conserves forests and aid to mitigate the world-wide change climatic, considering that the country pays the consequences that have originated others, also has the right to obtain a compensation.
