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chapter 3: climate change in ecuador and its impact on banana crops: an overview
Box 1 Ecuador’s climate change strategy
Ecuador’s development orientation is articulated under the national Good Living strategy that aims to improve the quality of social care services required to ensure the health of the population through health and environmental best practices and land
management.
Measures to mitigate and adapt against climate change fall also under the Good
Living strategy. The priority areas for climate action include the following:
• Mainstream mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the planning and investment of different levels and sectors of government in a coordinated and articulated manner.
• Implement climate change impact assessments and study the vulnerability and risk to productive sectors and communities, focusing on vulnerable groups and fragile ecosystems.
• Minimize the impact of climate change on the natural heritage, life cycles and supply of goods and services provided by different ecosystems.
• Include criteria for the mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the formulation and evaluation of strategic plans/projects and in the provision of infrastructure and services.
• Develop activities to increase knowledge, awareness and citizen’s participation in activities related to climate change management.
• Strengthen the National Information System with geospatial and statistical documents, with emphasis on hydrometeorology and agroclimatology, for the constant monitoring of climate change, while considering risk factors and vulnerability.
• Build human capital; strengthen technical capacity and negotiation skills; and implement policies for the mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
• Promote applied research in technology while valuing ancestral knowledge and sustainable practices for the prevention, mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
• Promote the elimination of perverse incentives to reduce GHG emissions in the sectors that are dependent on fossil fuels.
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