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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