Promoting low-carbon and climate resilient development pathways for Argentina (ProCLIM-AR)

State of implementation/results

• ProCLIM-AR has begun implementation in its pilot provinces of Misiones and Chubut, Santa Fé, Cordoba and Buenos Aires.
• Output I Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR): In Chubut, the intervention area consists of a total of 42,176 hectares. The province's restoration measures on 1,162 hectares are being analysed and necessary adjustments to the Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) plan are being discussed. The survey work had to be interrupted from 01/2025 due to severe forest fires.
• The purchase of 20,000 seedlings of Cordillera cypress (Austrocedrus chilensis) and the strengthening of the Forest Directorate nursery are progressing, with the aim of having 40,000 Coihue seedlings (Nothofagus dombeyi) available for the 2025/2026 restoration campaign.
• In Misiones, ProCLIM-AR has initiated a FLR dialogue platform with the Argentinian member organisations of the Trinational Network for the Restoration of the Atlantic Forest, whose intervention area is the ‘Green Corridor of Misiones’. Joint elaboration of the first draft of the FLR plan together with the Ministry of Ecology and Renewable Natural Resources of Misiones.
• Development of FLR guidelines has begun, including (i) a catalogue of FLR best practices; (ii) a FLR planning methodology manual; and (iii) a proposal for FLR regulations for each of Argentina's seven forest regions.
• Output 2 Resource efficiency: Identify industrial sub-sectors and start sectoral studies with pilot cases; organise training courses with the metallurgical industry association ADIMRA.
• Support for the development of a provincial programme for resource efficiency and energy efficiency for industrial companies in Santa Fé. Potential studies on green jobs, gender and digitalisation for resource efficiency were initiated.
• Agreement on a train-the-trainer programme on sustainable consumption and production as well as resource efficiency in the construction sector with the Argentinian construction association CAMARCO and the construction workers' union UOCRA. Through a study trip to Germany in 11/2024 together with the IKI project GET 4.0, ProClimAR strengthened the capacities of representatives of the national and provincial governments, the steel, cement, food and metallurgy industries and technology institutes and strengthened the networks between Argentine and German institutions.
• Organisation of a conference on 22.02.24 on resource efficiency and climate change in the Argentinian industrial sector (construction, metallurgy and chemical industries), which presented the results of the IKI projects 21-I-431 ‘Resource Efficiency and Climate Protection Initiative’ (IREK) II and 21-I-408 ‘Climate Action Programme for the Chemical Industry’ (CAPCI) as well as the subsequent plans of ProCLIM-AR on Output 2 Resource Efficiency.
• Output 3: The platform ‘National Observatory for Sustainable Transport’ was launched on 20 November 2024, governance structure and operational guidelines agreed, committees and two working groups (energy efficiency and new drive technologies) established.
• Output 4 National climate policy/ climate governance: The project supports the Argentinian partners in NDC updating, implementation & monitoring as well as in national planning for adaptation and mitigation of climate change until 2030, e.g. by developing the national climate change information system SNICC. It promotes the implementation of the sectoral climate plans for transport, construction and metallurgy, e.g. via the newly established Round Table for Industry and Climate Change.
• ProCLIM-AR has submitted a preliminary analysis of innovative sources of climate finance to the Argentinian government. The project develops indicators and monitoring systems for (sub-)national mitigation, climate response and adaptation plans, vulnerability and risk diagnostics together with national and provincial environmental secretariats.

Latest Update:
04/2025

Further links

• Reducing emissions helps lower costs - LA NACIÓN (article, Spanish)
• Agreement signed to restore areas affected by forest fires in the mountains - Últimas Noticias: El Chubut (article, Spanish)