This resolution of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Environment adopts Policy Guidelines for Sustainable Cattle Farming in line with Colombia's Constitutional norms for the protection of the natural environment and international commitments, including under the UNFCCC. The Guidelines set out a roadmap for the period between 2022 - 2050, with the aim of ensuring that livestock farming in Colombia is modernized and reconverted to sustainable livestock production systems, low in GHG emissions and adapted to climate change to ensure the reilience of the territory. The Guidlines aim to operate in a way that preserves the social and cultural fabric around livestock and promotes green growth and responsible consumption.

Decree No. 40179 defines the parameters for long-term contracting auctions for electricity generation projects.

Decree No. 40141 amends Decree No. 40590.

The decree regulates the identification of preferential parking spaces for electric vehicles and the logo and color that they must carry, in order to comply with the provisions of Law 1964 of 2019, which determined the destination of at least 2% of parking spaces for use of preferential electric vehicles.

This is a $135 billion stimulus plan approved by the government following the COVID-19-induced crisis. It notably aims to foster the intake of renewable energies,&nbsp;

This law impulses low-carbon development through the establishment of goals and measures in order to reach carbon neutrality and resilience. It sets accountability mechanisms, defines pillars to enable the transition, and sets a range of economy-wide and sectoral mitigation and adaptation targets and other measures. <a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/37455">According to a World Bank report</a>, the law establishes that, beginning in 2023, half of carbon tax revenues will be used in "costal erosion management, conversation of water sources, and the protection of ecosystems", amongst other measures. The other half of tax revenues "will be used for financing the Program for the Substitution of Illicit Use Crops (Programa Nacional Integral de Sustitución de Cultivos de Uso Ilícito)".

This law promotes sustainability, implement mechanisms for the conservation, protection and use of tourist destinations and attractions, as well as strengthen the formalisation and competitiveness of the sector and promote the recovery of the tourism industry, through the creation of incentives, Strengthening quality and adopting measures to drive transformation and opportunities in the sector. The law aims to boost ecotourism. Article 15 on climate change measures for the tourism sector states &nbsp;that the Tourism Industry Advisory Council will develop public-private strategies for mitigation and adaptation to climate change aimed at minimising the carbon footprint of the tourism sector, in line with the principles and definitions established in Law 1931/2018. These strategies must contain mitigation, control and compensation measures for greenhouse gas emissions generated by tourism activities, as well as adaptation to the negative impacts of climate change.

The purpose of this Law is to generate promotion schemes for the use of electric and zero-emission vehicles, in order to contribute to sustainable mobility and the reduction of polluting emissions and greenhouse gases. It amends art.5 pargraph 5 of law 488/1988 to cap the taxation of electric vehicles to 1% of its commercial value. It sets other measures including the possibility for local authorities to promote EVs using a number of policy tools.

The present Law issues the National Development Plan for 2018-2022 called "Pact for Colombia, Pact for Equity" of the Government of President Iván Duque. The Plan has 16 chapters called "Pacts", and chapter 4 "Pact for sustainability: produce through conservation conserving and conservation through production" includes a line of action for climate change mitigation and a line of action for climate change adaptation.

This Plan replaces the previous <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/law/law-1450-establishing-the-national-development-plan-2010-2014/">National Development Plan 2010-2014</a>.

This law enshrines into law several budgetary and tax clauses. It notably establishes a clause favouring private entities undertaking adaptation efforts. The article 800-1 of this law states that the object of rental tax agreements will a be direct investment in the execution of projects of economic and social importance in the different municipalities defined as the Areas Most Affected by the Armed Conflict (Zomac), related to drinking water and basic sanitation, energy, public health, public education, rural public goods, adaptation to climate change and risk management, payments for environmental services (...).</div><div> </div><div>

Technical analysis of the third biennial update report of Colombia submitted on 14 January 2022. Summary report by the team of technical experts., Technical Analysis Summary Report from UNFCCC Secretariat in 2023

Colombia. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR 3. National inventory report., National Inventory Report from Colombia in 2022

Colombia. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR3., Biennial Update Report from Colombia in 2022

E2050 COLOMBIA: Estrategia climÃ¡tica de largo plazo de Colombia - E2050 para cumplir con el Acuerdo de ParÃ­s, Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategy from Colombia in 2021

Colombia First NDC (Updated submission), Nationally Determined Contribution from Colombia in 2020

Document CONPES 3700 on the Institutional Strategy for the Articulation of Policies and Actions in Climate Change

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The main objective of CONPES 3700 is to outline a mechanism for institutional co-ordination to incorporate climate change into sectorial and territorial decision making, the National Climate Change System (SISCLIMA). 
 
CONPES 3700 recommended the creation of SISCLIMA as the official national institution to coordinate and propel climate change actions. Within these actions, SISCLIMA will co-ordinate the implementation of the four climate change priority strategies defined by the government: CCNAP, CLCDS, ENREDD+ and the Strategy for Fiscal Protection Against Natural Disasters. It is expected that these strategies will need to formulate their own financing strategy and to add a component for private sector investment. 
 
The proposed approach is one whereby climate change initiatives will be built through a bottom-up approach. Four permanent committees at the base of the SISCLIMA structure will coordinate, shape and implement sectoral and territorial policy as well as international affairs for climate change adaptation and mitigation based on detailed technical studies carried out on specialised working groups. The Finance Committee (FC) will act as coordinator of financing activities and offer support to those initiatives seeking financial support by directing efforts to identify and coordinate sources of finance available at the national and international levels. Finally, at the very top of the system, the Inter-Sectoral Commission on Climate Change (COMICC) will bring together various ministries and key national institutions to co-ordinate and direct institutional efforts on climate change and act as the connection point between SISCLIMA and the wider government, including the presidency. COMICC will also share findings and guide policy at the highest level of the national government on climate change issues. The final structure however is still under revision. 
 
A Presidential Decree is required to give effect to CONPES 3700. At the time of writing (November 2014) this has not been issued and meanwhile successive drafts of the REDD+ Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP) have introduced further refinements. For example, CONPES 3700 envisages that SISCLIMA will be directed by an Executive Committee (COMECC). The latest drafts of the R-PP have sought to make SISCLIMA's governance more inclusive; COMECC has now become an Inter-Sectoral Committee (COMICC).

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