
National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMDL)
The National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism (CNCCMDL) was created by Decree No. 601-08, on September 20, 2008, with the aim of articulating and joining efforts from the different institutions that make up the sectors of development of the country to combat the global problem of climate change. It is chaired by the President of the Dominican Republic, Lic. Danilo Medina Sánchez, and is composed of the heads of the Ministries of Environment and Natural Resources, Economy, Planning and Development, Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Industry and Trade and Public Health and Social Assistance. Also, from the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the National Energy Commission, the Office for the Reorganization of Transportation, the Superintendence of Electricity, the Dominican Corporation of State Electric Companies, the Association of Banks of the Dominican Republic, the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic, the private generators of the national energy sector, the National Council of Private Enterprise and representatives of civil society organizations. It has a Vision that by 2030, the Dominican Republic will have improved the quality of life of human beings and the health of ecosystems, improved their capacity to adapt to climate change, reduced their vulnerability to it and will have contributed to the stabilization of greenhouse gases, without compromising their efforts to fight against poverty and their sustainable development, and promoting the transition towards economic growth with low carbon emissions.
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