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Thursday May 21

USAID and the Woodrow Wilson Center held a seminar about climate change and vulnerable watersheds in the Andes with the goal to strengthen the dialogue about climate adaptation among diverse decision makers from a variety of ministries, academia, and civil society, as a means of stimulating local development of new policy and programmatic tools that help Peru meet the financial, organizational, and political challenges that climate change presents. 
This was done through discussions generated by presentations from US-based institutions like the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Public Works in Los Angeles and the Arid Lands Institute from the University of Woodbury who are dealing with issues of climate change adaptation in environments similar to Peru and through hearing about innovative solutions already being applied in Peru at the national and regional levels.