Climate Change Impacts On The Northwestern Andean (NOA) and Western (Cuyo) Andean Regions of Argentina - Impact of Global Changes on Mountains: Responses and Adaptation - page 465

and circumstances.” Argentina chaired the international negotiations that
materialized into the Kyoto Protocol to the Convention in 1995. 2 The country
is an observer in the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility,
a program aimed at fi nancing the implementation of REDD+ projects
in developing countries. Because of its commitment to the principles of
the Convention, Argentina has submitted two national communications
to the UNFCCC together with corresponding inventories of emissions
and removals of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), and one review of the fi rst
national communication. In both communications Argentina presented
diverse studies which could be the foundation for devising national
policies aimed to confronting the likely impacts of climate change. Two
of those are particularly relevant to the present chapter. The fi rst national
communication (RA 1997) contains a study on the vulnerability of oases
located in both the NOA and Cuyo regions; the second communication (RA
2007) contains climate scenarios for the whole country.
In this chapter we assess the relevant information on regional
vulnerabilities, mitigation and adaptation actions to plausible impacts
of Climate Change on two mountain regions in Argentina: one in the
Northwest (NOA 3 region), and the other in the West (Cuyo 4 region) of the
country (Fig. 21.1). The NOA and Cuyo regions are closely related to the
septentrional and the mid sections of the Argentinean Andean Ridge. Roveta
(2008) has aptly dealt with climate change impacts in the meridional section
of the Argentinian Andes.
Figure 21.1. Partial physical map of Argentina showing the boundaries of the NOA region
(continuous thick black contour line) and the Cuyo region (segmented thick gray contour
line). Labels show the names of the provinces in each region (Map obtained from IGN (2011).