Country page - Argentina

Updated on 31 January 2024

HAZARD

 

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NEEDS

Wildfires

 

Improved restoration guidelines for burned areas

by developing comprehensive guidelines that consider ecosystem characteristics, identifying appropriate restoration techniques, promoting the propagation of native plant species, and advocating for sustainable and environmentally friendly restoration practices.

Development of knowledge on appropriate measures for each ecosystem

 through research and studies aimed at enhancing understanding of ecosystem-specific measures, collaborating with local experts and scientists

Identification and implementation of long-term success models by exploring existing successful models for burned area restoration, identifying key factors contributing to long-term success, developing frameworks and guidelines based on these models

Implementation of specific pilot projects

for targeted restoration by designing and implementing pilot projects in selected areas, assessing ecosystem conditions, involving local communities and stakeholders

  • Drought monthly reports: link  
  • Drought‘s monitoring: link link
  • Reports on crops impacts: link   
  • Disaster Risk Reduction Nacional Plan (2018 - 2023): link  
  • Flooding in Santa Fe, Argentina, 2003. Document prepared by ECLAC, in collaboration with the United Nations System in Argentina: link
  • Final Report on heat waves (2020), National Meteorological Service: link
  • ProVul "Macroeconomic impact of meteorological variables in Argentine agriculture", developed within the framework of the PICT 2018-03537 project "System for valuation of economic losses due to extreme climatic events in extensive crops in Argentina": link
  • Different publications about desertifications elaborated by the National Observatory of degraded lands and desertification: link

Pre-emptive adaptation:

  • SIMARCC: interactive tool for identifying climate change related risks, link.
  • Red GIRCYT: network of technical scientific organizations for disaster risk management under  the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, link.
  • Sea level rise projections, Water’s National Institute, Ministry of Public Works: link

Addressing losses through disaster relief funds, credit facilities etc.:

  • Subnational line of credits at a subsidized rate to producers in Agricultural Emergency, Santa Fe Province: link
  • Insurance coverage for small producers to cover part of the cost of the replacement of  damaged infrastructure and the reimplantation of the affected surface of their production: link
  • Financial instruments under the National System of Agricultural Emergency: link

Disaster risk reduction focused strategies and measures through activities under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, contingency and trust funds, disaster legislation, etc.:

  • Disaster Risk Reduction Nacional Plan (2018 - 2023): link  
  • National System for Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection (SINAGIR) - Law n°27.287 (2011): link
  • Resilient Cities Program (2019): link  
  • National Adaptation Plan (in elaboration) 
  • National Fire Management Service: link
  • National Climate Change Cabinet: Disaster Risk Management Working Group, made up of different stakeholders.

Collection and management of data and information (including databases, spatial data, systematic observations, establishing baselines, etc):

  • Establishment of a baseline on non-economic and social loss and damage, as well as regarding culture, territory, indigenous knowledge systems, ecosystem services.
  • Development of databases and information services to support risk profiling and risk assessment of a variety of timeframes by different actors and stakeholders in their decision-processes.

Analyses of data and information (including climate change projections, impact analyses, hazard mapping, etc):

  • Quantitative assessment of risk for important systems to inform decision-making, in particular, selection of risk management approaches.
  • Costing of impacts in the present as well as for projected impacts for use in costs-benefit analyses to appraise options.
  • Methods for automated and semi-automated inventorying of infrastructure and assets such as involving geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence.
  • Estimation and outreach on future climate change risks to inform investor decisions.

Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:

  • Design of proposals and access to financing for climate information services and early warning systems under the GCF and other funding channels.
  • Development of funding proposals related to the strategic workstreams of the five-year rolling workplan of the Executive Committee.
  • Optimizing financing between different measures to address risk comprehensively/trade-off analyses in deciding on balance between investment in preemptive measures and measures to address residual risk.
  • Protection of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.

Financial instruments (such as insurance, risk pooling, contingency funds, etc):

  • Design of combinations of appropriate risk finance tools and instruments applicable to a specific country context and vulnerable groups.
  • Development and deployment of forecast-based finance instruments to minimize potential losses to productive systems.
  • Development of different insurance mechanisms.
  • Development of curriculum on various relevant aspects of climate change and loss and damage.
  • Consolidation and implementation of a road map for the Disaster Risk Management Working Group under the National Climate Change Cabinet.
  • Disaster Risk Management implementation of actions that are being designed under the National Adaptation Plan.
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