UNAN-Managua Institutional policy for adaptation and mitigation for climate change

Abstract

Climate Change is one of the problems faced in Nicaragua, whose policy of attention is based on the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change 2010-2015 and taken up in Article 60 of the Political Constitution of the country, referred to in Article 60 of the same, and the National Plan of Human Development. Both agree that the deforestation of large areas of the territory has led to soil erosion and the increase of dry areas, putting at risk the food security of the population, the economy, trade and biodiversity. This article is a reflection on the social role of the university in the training of professionals with a broad vision and awareness for adaptation and mitigation to climate change, a role that can be strengthened and impact through the establishment of an institutional policy in the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Managua, as an instrument that facilitates an integral action, taking into account the potential resources of all the actors that converge in this alma mater, which in an articulated manner allow the coordination and reduction of the adverse impacts of climate change , and offer a framework of actions that contribute to increasing environmental resilience.

Keywords: institutional policy, adaptation to climate change, mitigation to climate change.