Funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and concerned with research-led climate capacity building, the B-EPICC project hosted a delegation from a number of Peruvian ministries on 01 November 2022 during their visit to Germany for inter-ministerial exchanges of both countries.
As noted on the day by Peruvian Minister for the Environment, Mr Wilbert Rozas, it is vital that research and policy spheres work hand in hand – with the ultimate goal of supporting people in a changing climate.
Peru has been a partner country to the B-EPICC project since its inception in 2018 and the project has vital links there with the national Ministry for the Environment (MINAM), the National Water Authority (ANA), the National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (SENAMHI), the International Organization (IOM), and individual researchers and policy makers. Peru is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts ranging from drought to flooding. The El Niño phenomenon occurs regularly, which impacts on extreme rainfall, as well as the agricultural and water sectors, and which ultimately affects communities, including by generating push factors contributing to human migration. In recent years, the B-EPICC project and its researchers have contributed to more reliable long-term El Niño forecasting, developed a novel high-resolution gridded precipitation data set for hydrological modelling of Peruvian (and Ecuadorian) watersheds (RAIN4PE), which is applied by water management actors in-country, and made major inroads in evidencing how climate change affects human migration and displacement in Peru, a topic only beginning to get policy attention there.
On 1st November delegates from the Peruvian Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, and the General Directorate of Policies and Regulation in Construction and Sanitation together with GIZ and KfW visited the B-EPICC project to discuss further science-policy collaboration ahead of an inter-ministerial exchange with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
More information on EPICC's activities in Peru:
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/institute/departments/activities/epicc/partner-countries/peru
B-EPICC Output:
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