Event:Climate finance on Wikipedia

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Within the framework of Weaving knowledge networks in Latin America: Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices and Wikimedia Platforms, Wikimedians of Uruguay and WikiAcción Perú invite Wikimedians from Latin America interested in topics related to climate change and sustainability to join the editing contest Climate financing in Wikipedia, carried out with the support of Wiki Education.

The objective of this activity is to create, improve, and update articles related to the topic of climate finance and its impact on Latin America.

How to participate?

1. Create your Wikimedia account or Sign in to your existing one. If this is your first time editing Wikipedia, we suggest you review Help:Introduction or the Manual of Style.
2. Sign up for the editing contest on this page.
3. Choose one or more articles from the "Suggested Articles" section to create or improve. You can select another article not listed, as long as it's encyclopedically relevant and related to the topic.

Awards

• The 3 people who edit the most will win a gift card worth $100.
• The awards seek to recognize the three people who make the most contributions to one or more language Wikipedias in the region, between November 8 at 00:01 UTC and December 8 at 23:59 UTC.
• If you win, we will contact you via the email address associated with your Wikipedia account and your user page. It's important that you keep this information up to date.
• If we do not receive a response by December 31, 2024, the corresponding prize will be forfeited.

Winners

The 3 people who edited the most during the contest were:

1. Ximoto
2. Nathaly 1106
3. Abelchristian111

¡Felicitaciones! Y muchas gracias a quienes participaron.

Suggested articles to improve or update

№	Image	Article	Description	en	fr	de	hi	ja	ms	pt	ru	es	sw	Σ	Wikidata	st.
1		climate finance, creado	finance that aims at reducing emissions, and enhancing sinks of greenhouse gases	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	5	Q113141562	8	+
2		Global Environment Facility, creado	public funder of projects to improve the global environment	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	7	Q384410	10	+
3		Green Climate Fund, creado	UN-sanctioned fund helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	5	Q3075923	14	+
4		Debt-for-nature swap, creado	The exchange of foreign debt for investments	+	-	+	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	4	Q5248582	1
5		climate change adaptation, creado	process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, seeking to moderate or avoid harm or exploit beneficial opportunities	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	+	+	-	8	Q260607	10	+
6		climate change mitigation, creado	actions to limit climate change in order to reduce the risks of global warming	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	+	-	7	Q898653	13	+
7		Adaptation Fund, creado	international fund that finances climate change projects for developing countries	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	4	Q352378	10
8		clean development mechanism, creado	climate change abatement and mitigation treaty	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+	-	7	[[d: Q535536| Q535536]]	5
9		climate bond, creado	Bonds used to fund projects which benefit the environment	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	8	Q5133457	2
10		emission trading, creado	market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	8	Q8348417	7	+
11		sustainable finance, creado	finance with an environmental objective	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	5	Q108910004	3
12		payment for ecosystem services, creado	incentives offered to farmers or landowners	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	3	Q2065360	3	+
13		Nationally Determined Contributions, creado	non-binding national plans highlighting climate actions	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	-	+	-	6	Q20051297	3
14		climate justice, creado	term linking the climate crisis with environmental and social justice	+	+	+	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	8	Q1291678	9	+
Σ	→ Autolist			14	12	13	2	9	3	12	5	14	1	85	avg: 6\9\61%	98

Suggested Items to Create

№	Image	Article	Description	en	fr	de	hi	ja	ms	pt	ru	es	sw	Σ	Wikidata	st.
1		National Adaptation Programme of Action, creado	climate change adaptation plan	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	2	Q6970171	3
2		climate debt, creado	debt owed by developed countries to developing countries for the damage caused by their disproportionately large contributions to climate change	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	3	Q5133512	4
3		Technological Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation, creado		+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	+	-	3	Q30686582	1
4		Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean, creado		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	1	Q126393609	6
Σ	→ Autolist			3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	9	avg: 2\1\23%	14