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>

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

Colombia. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR 2. National inventory report., National Inventory Report from Colombia in 2019

Law 1715/2014, regulating the integration and promotion of non-conventional renewable energy (FNCER)

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The <a href="http://wsp.presidencia.gov.co/Normativa/Leyes/Documents/LEY%201715%20DEL%2013%20DE%20MAYO%20DE%202014.pdf">Law 1715/2014</a> aims to promote the development and use of non-conventional energy sources, mainly renewable energy sources, in the national energy system, by integrating them into the electricity market and in other energy uses. The Law seeks to promote efficient energy management, which comprises both energy efficiency and demand response. 
 
The Law establishes the legal framework and mechanisms to promote the use of non-conventional energy sources, and to foster investment, research and development of clean energy technologies. It seeks to set lines of action to comply with commitments made with regard to renewable energy, efficient energy management and GHG reduction, such as those acquired by approving the Statute of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). 
 
The Law allows the release of surplus energy into the network for all self-generators. Surplus energy of small self-generators that use FNCER is recognised as energy credits, which can be negotiated according to regulations issued by the Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission. The Law introduces a new classification for self-generators: small and large scale, but only in reference to the form of energy delivery that is classified as small scale by the Mining and Energy Planning Unit. 
 
This Law also allows small scale FNCER auto-generators to use bi-directional meters to be able to balance their consumption and deliveries to the grid; simple connection and surplus delivery procedures are to be put in place to enable such mechanisms to be implemented by residential users (Art 8.b). 
 
Distributed generation is also an important modification of the electricity sector. The new Law allows a generator close to consumption centres and connected to a Local Distribution System to deliver energy directly to consumers. 
 
Incentives for FNCER include those related to: (i) tax, through deductions on the investment income statement related to these purposes; (ii) tariffs, through the exemption from payment of import duties on machinery and equipment for this type of generation; and (iii) accounting, where an accelerated depreciation on assets is permitted. 
 
The Law provides for the establishment of a Non-Conventional Energy and Efficient Energy Management Fund (FENOGE), which may finance all or part of the programmes and projects for the residential sector, at levels 1, 2 and 3, as long as they involve small scale, self-generation solutions and promote energy efficiency and good practice. On September 16th, 2017, the Ministry of Mines and Energy issued decree n. 1543 that modifies the rules established by decree n. 1073/2015 and further details the scope, organisation and financial means of FENOGE. 
 
UPME and CREG are responsible for issuing regulations applicable to FNCER, establishing new self-generation schemes, and setting price signals. The Law provides the government 12 months to issue such regulations.

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