In 2022, the Republic of Argentina submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the Long-Term Low Emissions Resilient Development Strategy (LTS) to 2050, approved by Resolution No. 218 of 2023. Through this strategy, goals were defined that will guide the process to be developed in the context of the National Climate Change Cabinet (GNCC, acronym in Spanish) to establish the framework for long-term climate action in the country. The LTS correlates with the National Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan (PNAyMCC, acronym in Spanish), which is a domestic planning instrument of the GNCC presented in 2022 and approved by former the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina (MAyDS, acronym in Spanish) Resolution No. 146 of 2023. The LTS includes the approaches and strategic lines of the PNAyMCC and in turn considers the goals of the Second NDC (2020) and the Second Revised NDC (2021).
Based on these instruments and in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement, Argentina elaborated the content of its NDC 3.0 during 2025. The process comprised the review and update medium-term scenarios order to update the mitigation target and present the Third Adaptation Communication under the National Climate Change Cabinet (GNCC, acronym in Spanish) climate governance structure. Additionally, it established consensus around priority issues such as loss and damage and to generate and unify criteria on the information produced in order to meet reporting criteria in the Biennial Transparency Report 2026.
Along these lines and in continuity with the work guidelines, UNEP submitted to the NDC Partnership the PAF project proposal entitled: PAF23-Q4-1 & PAF23-Q4-2: Update the Long-term Strategy (LTS) through the development and analysis of models, scenarios, and long-term trajectories & develop a roadmap for the development of a monitoring system for the Long-term Strategy, which seeks to establish a process of analysis of available information and scenarios to generate inputs and a road map that will facilitate the preparation of a second LTS for the country, while providing inputs for the improvement of national climate reports for the Republic of Argentina.
In this sense, UNEP is recruiting a Climate Change Adaptation Consultant for PAF Argentina to support the work of the Climate Impact Directorate of the National Undersecretariat for Environment. This support will consist of the development of a diagnosis and a proposal on the incorporation of adaptation perspectives in the medium- and long- term climate policy. The consultant will be supervised by UNEP’s NDC Act & Invest Global Coordinator and will work in a hybrid work model, enabling the possibility to work from home, while participating in-person activities such as meetings and stakeholder engagements as required, at the Undersecretariat of Environment located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Specific tasks and responsibilities
1. Survey and analyse the available information on the context of adaptation to climate change in the Argentine Republic, considering the latest existing studies, available scenarios and information from the Climate Change Risk Map Information System (SIMARCC).
2. Review the approach to the adaptation and loss and damage component in the Long-Term Strategies (LTS) presented to the UNFCCC.
3. Based on the above points, update the diagnosis and propose improvements to the adaptation component, considering the criteria for reporting in the IBT2 and in the Second LTS of Argentina.
4. Update the mapping of stakeholders, information providers, relevant studies, and training needs.
5. Develop consultation meetings and training workshops.
6. Develop dissemination material.