Guatemala - Environment

EU-Guatemala Green Deal 

Transformational Potential:

Development of sustainable economic model that combines economic development with sustainable resource management, environmental and biodiversity protection:

• Promotion of blue, green and circular economies
• Development of sustainable and resilient small-scale agriculture
• Supporting the achievement of NDCs.
• Sustainable forest management (conservation and exploitation) and recovery of lost forest masses.

The Team Europe Proposal activities include:

• Institutional capacity building
• Improving resilience (Agriculture value chains adaptation to climate change; Access to local market and water; Smalls-scale livestock farms promotion)
• Formulation of National Green and Circular economies development strategy
• Make operational the Environmental Fiscal Strategy.
• EU support in Mesoamerica Five Great Forests
• Municipal and industrial waste management plan implementation
• Improve local and regional cooperation on plastic waste
• Complement public investment in water and sanitation
• Environmental and deforestation monitoring – regional and multi country tools and capabilities
• Coordinated monitoring of climate data and decision making
• Urban mobility programme for the Guatemala City metropolitan area
• Peer-to-peer higher education and post-graduates’ exchanges
• Innovation and job creation small-scale projects
• Energy efficiency investments in the private sector
• Strengthening access of small farmers to markets (value chains), sustainable production, marketing and consumption
• Coordinated monitoring of water availability and transboundary cooperation for the Maya Biosphere Reserve protection
• Guatemala and Honduras TA to find a sustainable solution to the increased levels of waste in the Motagua river.