The enactment of the Environmental Education Law, the increase in financing for the fight against forest fires and for the extension of protected areas together with the document on Climate Change presented to the United Nations were the relevant points of the 2021 report on the environmental status in the country that today presented the portfolio led by Juan Cabandié.
“We work together with public and private institutions and civil society organizations to carry out a holistic situation study that analyzes all the edges that constitute the environment from the conviction that access to information is a right of all Argentines” , highlighted Cabandié.
The document highlights the enactment of Law No. 27621 on Comprehensive Environmental Education, “which marked a milestone in the implementation of environmental public policies” while noting the increase in financing for fighting forest fires of $2,640 million, from the creation of a trust with a rate of insurance policies.
This is the seventh report on the state of the environment in Argentina and was prepared in compliance with the General Environmental Law, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
It also provides a survey of the total Provincial Protected Areas (APP), which in 2021 reached 471, which is equivalent to 35,535,759 hectares.
It also details the five species of primates native to Argentina, which are at risk of extinction, “and which since 2021 have the Primate Conservation Plan, which seeks to respond to local populations in decline according to the evaluation of the state of national conservation”.
On the other hand, it gives an account of the Fourth Biennial Update Report, presented in 2021 before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
This is the seventh report on the state of the environment in Argentina and was prepared in compliance with the General Environmental Law, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
“We work together with public and private institutions and civil society organizations to carry out a holistic situation study that analyzes all the edges that constitute the environment from the conviction that access to information is a right of all Argentines”Juan Cabandie
In the “Tools for Environmental Management” section, the sanction of the “Yolanda Law” stands out, which seeks to guarantee comprehensive training in the environment, with a sustainable development perspective and with special emphasis on climate change, for people who work in public function.
There are also instruments for environmental education and evaluation, environment and gender, mountain committee, environmental planning of the territory, local management, the industrial reconversion program and the National Fire Management Service.
In addition, the report centralizes a detailed study of the thematic areas of greatest environmental relevance and the actions and strategies to achieve an adequate and sustainable quality of life, visualized through maps, graphs, texts and tables. The material is available at Ministry’s own websitewhere you can find the previous editions.
