National District. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) made the “RDuceTuHuella” tool available to the business sector, with which companies can calculate the impact of their daily operations on climate change, take actions to reduce their carbon footprint , and visualize the impact.
As explained by Leire Arteach and Pierre Candelon, UNDP specialists, to calculate emissions, RDuceTuHuella uses an online form and has an interactive dashboard to browse the data and learn about the situation of the company compared to others in the same sector.
The tool is part of the Companies for Climate initiative, which seeks to empower Dominican companies and contribute to the climate ambition prioritized by the Dominican Republic for 2030 of reducing emissions by 27%, with 20% conditioned on external finance. and 7% to household finances, of which 5% are the responsibility of the private sector.
The use of this tool will allow having more data and disaggregated information to know where to prioritize efforts and to be able to establish an emissions transparency system for the country.
Both “RDuceTuHuella” and “Companies for the Climate” are the fruits of the work of the Platform for Business Articulation for Climate Action, an inter-institutional coordination space made up of the Popular Foundation, ECORED, the National Council of Private Enterprise (CONEP), the National Council for Climate Change and Development Mechanism Limpio, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in order to take common actions to achieve the country’s climate ambition.
During the event, the representatives of ECORED and the Popular Foundation, María Alicia Urbaneja and Elías Dinzey, presented the achievements of the platform, and highlighted the importance of being able to articulate this alliance between the private sector, the public sector and international organizations in favor of environment. They stressed that this alliance represents an achievement in itself, as it is a space where the priorities and interests of the different sectors are aligned in favor of sustainability.
The launch of these instruments was carried out within the framework of the Climate Week in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was held from July 18 to 22 in Santo Domingo, in which the international organization organized a full day of conferences and panels on Programs Volunteer Nationals of Carbon footprint.
The opening event where these initiatives and experiences were presented was led by Alan Ramirez, technical director of the National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism; Eduardo Juliá, Deputy Minister of Environmental Management of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and Inka Mattila, UNDP resident representative in the Dominican Republic. It was also attended by César Dargam, Executive Vice President of the National Council of Private Enterprise (CONEP), among other personalities.
