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CEPAL/ECLAC - David Lamarche

Natalia Gomez from Civicus

Jamaica, St. Lucia,

Elected representatives

Within each country, growing mass of organizations

Coordinating

Colombia: last week, President sent bill to ratify, public event, it’s really active, get in touch with Ambiente Sociedad, elected representative Natalia Gomez

Jamaican + St. Lucia Rep

CYEN: teamed up with Nafesha

Youth Environment Network: Caribbean Regional Court?? Coordinates all the chapters in the Caribbean, chapter in

Other one is University of West Indies

Lot of student groups

Active in Jamaica + Trinidad + Tobago

Campus in Barbados

Lawyers: law students familiar with Escazú, working to teach gov community for the agreement, legal / environmental groups within universities

For rest of Latam: depends on the country

Escazú Ahora Chile + Perú, Red Escazú, Costa Rica, organization in El Salvador

Millennials movement, Peruvian lady, Rosario, can put in touch with her, cover 12 countries in Latam, older young people, more familiar with concerns of young people and how to link Escazú to young people / audience

Legal clinics: Universidad de Líneos??! (Emi kmows) - within 5 or 6 countries, legal clinics to support vulnerable communities to bring cases to court, other administrative procedures, useful in getting important messages across

Most important: create public awareness materials: UN is more technical materials, e-learning course, etc. but not easily digestible, suitable for a young audience, that’s where we can be an asset, use social media, small videos, retweets

Eco-House in Argentina: quite big, only cover Argentina

Take info that exists, packaging it in a different way that CEPAL hasn’t thought of, happy to send any documents that are technical, website, observatory, etc., adapt that to young audience = biggest challenge

Do we have a plan?

Latam- video, graphics with info, situation in Costa Rica Colombia Peru Argentina

Tomorrow video

Open Letter

Regional approach

The groups in specific countries have only national contacts, they forget that they are in a wider region: challenges are similar among countries

Overarching regional approach

Indigenous communities

Not super structured, but there may be some groups within each country that you may include

Often left out of international participation, rural communities, etc.

Reach out to Defensoría del Pueblo: __ offices, helping translate messages into indigenous languages, adapt messages to indigenous youth, not anyone has done

In Bolivia, Defensoria del Pueblo did some radio messages, some translations to indigenous, but good to adapt that to other platforms

Peru, government helped translate into Quechua(a native language) treaty is very hard to read for layperson, area to condense, Think until end of the year

UNICEF Youth Ambassadors for each country, may have steering committee or some sort of coordination, if reach out to UNICEF → ambassadors, getting them on board, explaining what the agreement is, why it’s important, why important for youth, reach a wider audience

Challenge with CEPAL: when speaking about agreement, people who already know about it, hard to get message across to others who aren’t used to environmental issues, hard to engage with media, other groups

Target media

Online platforms are more interested,

Can send a list of a few that would be interested, can send an email

Or try to call if in country

Special Rapporteur of the UN- David Boyd, helped consultation in Colombia on Children and the right to a healthY Environment, may also have some contacts to share, can give contact

Get Greta, other international spokesperson/spokespeople

No COP :(

Negotiations on biodiversity at the end of September- that could be a moment for international messages, include some regional messages, huge impact if Greta or someone else say about the agreement

Countries to target:

Grenada, St. Lucia, Jamaica, very close

Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Mexico (Congress in September)

Countries for signing

El Salvador, Honduras, Belize (they speak English!!)

Hi chance sign b before September 26

Groups in Belize, don’t know any organizations working there though, know government people, Google

Cuba, Venezuela

Trinidad, Barbados, Dominica, Bahamas

You can still join after September 26, but the other process (accession) is more time-consuming, signature and ratification at the same time is harder, political commitment: sign, but no deadline to ratify

Gives time, demonstrates commitment, signatories meeting at the end of the year

First meeting October 2019 Costa Rica, this December 2020

Engaging the governments

For countries that have signed and ratified, have designated local focal points

In ECLAC, see contacts can find government people who are focal points for the local agreement

Often from Ministry of Foreign, or from Environment, etc.

Those are the main people to send emails to

Depends on country, some are more open to working with different stakeholders, others are procedural and bureaucratic,

Some might be able to organize joint events with us and youth organizations,

St. Vincent, delegate is very open to working with UN, Escazú Champinos

Contact those people, if emails don’t work, tell David

For countries that haven’t signed: contacts are through embassies, government admissions in New York, UN, regular contact, wouldn’t be as useful

Another option is UN resident coordinator in each country, coordinate UN actions on a national scale, whole team of representatives, staff supporting, frequent contact with governments, another entry point

Resident coordinators, high level officials, but their assistants will likely direct the email to the suitable person, will socialize / give awareness within the UN team, will bring it up with the governments

Some are more open to organizing than others, some would be quite open to organizing events, Civil Society Actors

ECLAC = impartial, don’t intervene unless requested to, we can write them messages, say that you would like to send it to the government? Sometimes it’s not public but you might not see but it could be effective, Civil Servants who are there to support the government with the 2030 agenda, can do their part

What govenrmental process / where can I find how the agreement gets signed / ratified in each country?

The treaty follows treaty practice in each country, follows same procedure as Paris Agreement, etc. each country have specific procedure

Have to go to government website and read / research it

Generally, Latam = 2 stage process (executive approval + parliament) Parliament often has several readings, declaration (Ecuador is simplified procedure), has to go through the Parliament

Colombia: additional after Parliament → constitutional court, is compliant with constitution?

Same for Dominican Republic

Could work with: elections just happened, have some contacts (NGO contacts

Few months before conducting campaign in office, very committed, feasible that ratify once the government gets in office, very favorable to ratifying

For the rest in Latam is Parliament

Caribbean

For the most part: Cabinet decision,

Antigua and Barbuda already ratified through Parliament

Haiti: through Parliament

Suriname: Dutch model through Parliament

Has to look at procedure for any treaty

Depending on country, has upper chamber, lower chamber, international agreements normally reviewed by upper chamber (e.g. Senate in Mexico and Argentina → then goes to both houses, Colombia too)

What has worked on other countries

Depends on status on Agreement, sometimes emailing Congresspeople is very useful, Amnesty International had a campaign in some countries, form online, people could sign it and it sent email automatically to Congresspeople, Commission, whatnot, in Costa Rica + Ecuador

That can definitely help, when Congress are going to review something, see lots of positive feedback, it helps to know that people are watching, and are supportive of what they’re doing

Prime Ministers, ministers of foreign affairs, ambassadors to the UN (send everything to their ministers), to send to as many relevant people as possible, hard to find emails

About the Agreement

26th of September: why are people saying that deadline for ratification is 26th?

Internationally: not strong signal to get an agreement that’s not in force by the 2 year period: Paris Agreement came into force in a year, with some other treaties, it takes them a long time to take into force, so it’s still a good psychological deadline

Some rot in a long time

Wouldn’t worry too much: having date helps, so having that is a good psychological goal, good moment to ratify, grab attention

Opt for saying signature by 26th, ratification in general

Another group: organization in Caribbean: CANARI

Share materials to CEPAL, keep CEPAL in the loop, David isn’t active on Social Media, helps when in conversation with other stakeholders, other materials which are

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