• Cusco is the sixth Peruvian region to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), joining Apurímac, Moquegua, Piura, Arequipa and Loreto .
• Environmental transparency will be key in the region where the Camisea gas complex operates and oil extraction is carried out.

April 16, 2021.- The Regional Government of Cusco, through Regional Ordinance No. 188-2020-CR / GR Cusco, has created the Multisectoral Regional Commission for Transparency in Extractive Industries - EITI Cusco. With this, this region joins the important Global Initiative for transparency that has been implemented in our country since 2005, with the joint participation of the State, companies and civil society. With this region, there will be six that have regional commissions implemented in our country: Apurímac, Moquegua, Piura, Arequipa, Loreto and Cusco.

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The incorporation of Cusco to the EITI also opens the opportunity for greater environmental transparency about the extractive industries in the region, since within the data that are opened with this initiative is the information on environmental payments in the extractive industries.

In this regard, Vanessa Cueto, representative of civil society in the EITI Peru national commission and Coordinator of the DAR Environmental Governance and Management Program, from where she contributed to the process of creating this new Commission, points out that: “This Commission will facilitate the transparency of fiscal information but also, according to the EITI 2019 standard, it could support the transparency of environmental information of the extractive industries in Cusco, a region with the largest natural gas energy complex in Peru, of which it is part by For example, Lot 58, whose owner is the Chinese company CNPC, participates in the EITI, so it must lead by example in these matters ”. [...]