Fostering Green Transition in Petén

About this project

Over the past 30 years, Guatemala´s biggest department Petén lost 1.5 million hectares of primary forest coverage due to the excessive expansion of agriculture and livestock, a strong immigration from the neighbouring highlands and the mismanagement of its numerous national parks and protected areas. This dramatic ecological degradation is accelerating and causes further secondary damage to water resources, soil fertility and forest diversity. This is particularly worrying because the main forest mass of Central America and largest protected area in Guatemala, the Mayan Biosphere Reserve (RBM), with 2.1 million hectares of unique ecosystems and biodiversity, is in a fragile situation and threatened by irreversible damages. In addition, without an immediate and targeted intervention, Guatemala will not be able to fulfil its national determined contributions (NDCs) to reduce the greenhouse emissions as presented at the latest COP 2022 Conference.The traditionally weak public administration is not prepared and has no operational capacity to stem further overexploitation of the natural resources. The execution rate of the existing budget provisions is low at all levels of the State (governorate, state ministries and municipalities), causing deficient public investment in all sectors. Regional and local public entities do not sufficiently know the quite advanced green policy framework of Guatemala and do not present concrete projects to the respective national funds, which count…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 2Zero Hunger
• 5Gender Equality
• 8Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 10Reduced Inequalities
• 12Responsible Consumption and Production
• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land
• 16Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Published by

European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships · Other public sector

Countries

Guatemala

Sectors

LivestockTourism policy and administrative managementWater supply and sanitation - large systemsEnvironmental policy and administrative managementForestry developmentWaste management/disposal

Focus

Biodiversity · Main focusGender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Main focusClimate adaptation · Main focusDisaster risk reduction · Also contributesNutrition · Also contributes

Published by European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 29 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2022-ACT-60635.

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