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In Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, President Luis Abinader promised the citizens of Dominican Republic that he would be committed to addressing climate change and would come up with ways to preserve the environment. He went into further depth and said he would focus on solar energy for its electrical supply, and that he was committed to removing the country’s dependency on non-renewable resources. Many of these moves were in accordance with the Paris Agreement, which set forth goals for dealing with climate change. Among them are what are called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which the Dominican Republic used as a framework for setting their own goals. On October 1, 2020, the Dominican Republic launched the details on their NDC, stating that with the support of The Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP)<\/em>, they would review the NDC strategy and make changes to fit current times. This strategy includes a financial investment plan, addressing water management, food security, ecosystem preservation, new urban living which removes dependency on fossil fuels, and a medium-term implementation plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this new plan, they should accomplish some of these goals by 2025 and the rest of the changes made by 2050. While these are changes which will have a positive effect on the environment, they do not come with cost. The Dominican Republic has one the largest arising economies in the Caribbean, but the changes being in accordance with the Paris Agreement could possibly have catastrophic effects on their economy and their country as a whole. One thing that the Dominican Republic relies on is imported fossil fuels, but the NDCs require the country to phase out fossil fuels to limit greenhouse gas emissions and invest in more sustainable energy productions. The Dominican Republic would be less reliant on other countries, but it would be a large financial cost. The\u00a0International Renewable Energy Agency\u00a0(IRENA), assists governments in establishing plans for increasing renewable energy, is working on a report for the \u00a0Dominican Republic. The report predicts the country could “increase the share of renewable power generation to as much as 44 percent by 2030, based mostly on solar photovoltaic, wind and bioenergy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only do these initiatives involve governments and International Governmental Organizations (IGO), but also Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), like The Nature Conservancy. As discussed in class, an NGO is private organizations that focus on humanitarian, technical, political and economic efforts. Many times their activities are in countries where IGOs refuse to help. In the Dominican Republic, The Nature Conservancy is focused on preserving the coastal ecology of the island nation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Article link: http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2020\/11\/driving-climate-change-top-dominican-republic\/ In Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, President Luis Abinader promised the citizens of Dominican Republic that he would be committed to addressing climate change and would come up with ways to preserve the environment. He went into further depth and said he would focus on solar energy for its electrical supply, and that he was committed to removing… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}