Uruguay Country Programme to the GREEN CLIMATE FUND

Uruguay's Country Programme to the GCF details the nation's commitment to a low-carbon, resilient economy. It identifies key vulnerabilities—particularly in agriculture and coastal zones—and sets mitigation targets for energy and food production. The document establishes the Ministry of Environment as the National Designated Authority and outlines a pipeline of projects focusing on e-mobility, coastal resilience, and REDD+, while pursuing GCF accreditation for the Corporación Nacional para el Desarrollo (CND) and Banco República Oriental del Uruguay (BROU).

• Uruguay's greenhouse gas emissions are dominated by the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector, which accounted for 72% of emissions in 2014, followed by Energy at 23%.
• The country has set specific 2025 unconditional mitigation targets to reduce emissions intensity per GDP unit from a 1990 base year, including a 24% reduction for CO2 and a 57% reduction for CH4.
• Uruguay is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events, with significant economic losses recorded from the 2008 drought, 2014 floods, and a 2016 F3 tornado in Dolores that caused 30 million dollars in material losses.
• The energy sector has undergone a major transformation, achieving a 98% renewable energy supply in 2017, with wind power covering 23% of electricity consumption in 2016.
• Coastal areas are identified as high-risk zones, with 70% of the population concentrated along the Atlantic Ocean and Río de la Plata, facing threats from sea-level rise and erosion.
• The Ministry of Environment (MA) serves as the National Designated Authority (NDA), and the government has nominated the Corporación Nacional para el Desarrollo (CND) and Banco República Oriental del Uruguay (BROU) for GCF accreditation to enable direct access.
• Uruguay's project pipeline includes several high-priority initiatives: the 'E-Motion' program for electric mass transport, a coastal resilience project for the Río de la Plata and Atlantic coastline, and a REDD+ scaling project.
• The country is implementing a gender-sensitive approach to climate action, utilizing a Gender Working Group to categorize NDC measures as neutral, gender sensitive, potentially transformative, or gender transformative.
• Key mitigation gaps include the need for energy storage to manage variable wind power, the introduction of electric vehicles in the transport sector, and the improvement of methane capture in urban solid waste landfills.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2022). Uruguay Country Programme to the GREEN CLIMATE FUND. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/country-programme-uruguay.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Uruguay Country Programme to the GREEN CLIMATE FUND. 2022. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/country-programme-uruguay.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2022uruguay, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Uruguay Country Programme to the GREEN CLIMATE FUND}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2022}, month = mar, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/country-programme-uruguay.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }