Belize is considered as being one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change. As such, the Government of Belize has taken steps to address the causes and impacts of climate change in order to promote resilience to the impacts. These efforts began with the signing and ratification of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992 and 1994 respectively. Later in 2003, Belize acceded to the Kyoto Protocol which came into force on the 16th of February 2005. Recently, Belize signed the Paris Agreement on 22nd of April 2016 and submitted its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in this regard. Most recently, on 24th of August 2021, The Cabinet approved an updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) that has been submitted to the UNFCCC. 

The EnGenDER Project, which seeks to integrate gender equality and human rights based on approaches into DDR, climate change (CC) adaptation and environmental management frameworks and interventions and identify and address some of the gaps to ensure equal access to DRR and climate change environment solutions for women, men, boys and girls in nine Caribbean countries, aims to further achieve its mandate under the NCCO by hiring a Climate Change Mitigation Officer to support the implementation of adaptation activities and initiatives.

One of the objectives under the EnGenDER project is to advance the gender-responsive implementation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) at the sector-level according to national priorities, focusing on sectors that have the greatest beneficial impact for women and girls. Prioritised sector-level adaptation approaches will be undertaken, which may include climate-smart agriculture, value addition of Sargassum seaweed, integrated agriculture of fisheries management and nature/ecosystem -based solutions. NAMAs will focus on renewable energy, responding to stakeholder requests for the climate-proofing of essential services infrastructure. The Climate Change Mitigation will report to the EnGenDER Project Manager, and work under the overall supervision of the Chief Climate Change Officer. 

The basic purpose of the position is to develop the coordination and monitoring activities related to climate change mitigation at the national level, specifically as it related to the development and management of a National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Management System. The position responsibilities are to incorporated National Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) frameworks on climate change mitigation issues for both policy and projects and including programme development, knowledge management and capacity building and monitoring and reporting, inter alia.