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This December 2014, Lima will be the seat of COP20, the largest event executed in the country’s history. The conference will host 15,000 participants who will gather for ten days defining the planet’s future. In addition to the formal negotiations, there will be a parallel event “Voices for Climate,” where organizations working on issues related to Forests, Oceans, Energy, Sustainable Cities, Mountains & Water, and, for the first time, Indigenous Populations, will have a space for expression.
All eyes are now on Peru. As President of COP20, Peru is determined to facilitate the negotiations, obtaining at least a draft of the agreement to be signed in 2015. As the seat for COP20, Peru will show its regional leadership being the second country in South America to host a COP, after Argentina.
The UNFCCC Secretariat’s responsibility for such a complex convention has fallen mostly on the Ministry of Environment (MINAM). However, one must be aware that climate change is not only an environmental issue, since it affects and is affected by humans and their diverse activities. Hence, there are many actors involved the organisation and delivery of this event.
Lecciones COP20 involves an independent research team, created at the request of MINAM’s Communication and Knowledge Management department and with the financial support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), looking to identify the main lessons learned in the organization of COP20.
The Project, lessons learned from the COP20, aims to gather the views and experiences of people involved in different aspects of its organisation to identify lessons and recommendations for future events of similar magnitude.
This study has been requested by the Ministry for the Environment of Peru and is financed by IADB.
The study is informed by a report from the Institute for Government in the United Kingdom on lessons learned in the organization of the Olympic Games in London in 2012. The games, like COP20 for Peru, were the largest event organised by the country in peacetime. Because of its importance for Peru, the COP20, like the Olympics for Britain, demands an effort to capture key lessons and to learn from them.
This After Action Review will collect the experiences of different participants before, during, and after the event; will be based on literature from this and prior COPs; will disseminate a brief survey to be completed in situ; and will maintain in constant communication through this platform and Twitter.
The final Lecciones COP 20 report, to be presented in March 2015, will be part of the legacy of COP 20, containing lessons and specific recommendations for the organization of future events of this magnitude in Peru and internationally.
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