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Facility Sharing of Views Paraguay Second BUR
November 25, 2020Asunción, Paraguay
Paraguay national circustances
OFFICIAL NAME Republic of Paraguay
CAPITAL Asunción
SURFACE 406.752 km2
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES Spanish and Guarani
CURRENCY Guarani (PYG)
POPULATION (2018) 7,052,983
GOVERNMENT SYSTEM Presidential Republic
PRESIDENT Mario Abdo Benítez (2018-2023)
LITERACY RATE 94.2%
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (2017) 5.2%
Main economic indicators
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT - GDP (MillIon
USD, 2018)39,836
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT PER CAPITA
(USD, 2018)5,618
GDP GROWTH (2018) 4.0%
INFLATION (2018) 3.2%
FOREIGN CURRENCY RESERVES (Million USD) 7,908
EXCHANGE RATE (GS. / USD) 5,732
PUBLIC EXTERNAL DEBT(Million USD) 6,394 (16% of GDP)
ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE POPULATION (2017)3,465,976 (63.1% of
Population)
SOURCES: BCP / DGEEC
Economy of Paraguay
4° WORLD EXPORTER OF MATE TEA1° WORLD EXPORTER OF ORGANIC
SUGAR
4° WORLD EXPORTER OF SOYBEANS
AND THEIR PRODUCTS
8° WORLD EXPORTER OF BOVINE MEAT 6° WORLD EXPORTER OF RICE
HYDROELECTRIC ENERGY PRODUCER
GHG Inventory (Time serie 1990-2015)
Mitigation actions and MRV
REDD+ Technical Annex
Support needed and received
Needs to improve the capacities of national technicians in the areas of:
• Greenhouse Gas Inventory
• MRV of mitigation measures
• methodologies to determine mitigation potential
• design of adaptation projects.
• implementation of adaptation measures
Paraguay has received support in strengthening capacities through
cooperation with the Latin-American GHG inventory Network and with
South-South cooperation, and other donors and agencies.
Paraguay´s Experience in the ICA process
• Better coordination among actors tan the first ICA of Paraguay
• The results and recommendations help to build the
improvement plan and BUR
• Inputs to design CBIT project and improvement in the NDC.
• Build confidence in the technical team, with improvement since
the BUR1 and the commends received.
Q & A received FSV Plataform
Paraguay received a total of 6 questions from : USA, UE and
New Zealand . Covering the following topics :
- Advance TIERS in the inventory
- Mitigation actions
- Support Received
- Emissions reductions in LULUCF
Muchas Gracias, Thank you, Aguije
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