Colombia
Governor and Delegates
Caquetá
Governor
Luis Francisco Ruiz Aguilar
Delegates
Lorenzo Andrés Vargas Gutiérrez
Advisor
lorenzoandresvg@gmail.com
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Juan Pablo Jaramillo
Secretary of the Environment and Agriculture
agricultura@caqueta.gov.coÂ
News from Colombia
Happy World Environment Day
Thanks to all our jurisdictions, communities, and partners - we look forward to continuing to work hard together to build a New Forest Economy that protects people, planet, forests, and the climate.
GCF Task Force Meets to Build a New Forest Economy to Protect Standing Forests and Communities and Build Momentum to COP30
Subnational coalition of states and provinces convene to co-design mechanisms to support a thriving bioeconomy, protect natural infrastructure at jurisdiction-scale, build out sustainable supply chains, and foster large-scale restoration. Rio Branco, May 23, 2025 –...
Colombian Governors’ Declaration of Cooperation
From April 22-23, 2025, the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force (GCFTF), together with Action for Forests, the Amazonia+ program of the European Union, the Unidad Nacional para la Gestion de Riesgos de Desastres de Colombia, and the Ministry of the Environment...
“The most important part of the deforestation reduction strategy that we have been implementing in the department of Caquetá is our efforts to reclaim the ancestral knowledge of ethnic and peasant groups related to forests, as well as aligning the different national, territorial and institutional planning tools with sustainable forest management to generate a forest economy framed in green growth. Together, the efforts of the national, regional, departmental and local government are aligned to reduce deforestation with the support of the international community, NGOs and, most importantly, the civil society of the Department.”
–Lorenzo Andrés Vargas Gutiérrez, Advisor to the Governor of Caquetá